Intermedialität and Literature. What is Filmic Rewriting?
Intermedialität and Literature. What is Filmic Rewriting?

Summary/Abstract: My paper investigates and explores the complex relationships between literature and film, focusing on the specific developments on creating a requisite terminology. The filmic rewritings are discussed from the vantage point of view of diachronically and synchronically analysis of the terms involved in researching the specific discourse of film and the creative reception of literature.In defining film rewriting I am indebted to Joachim Paech, Werner Wolf and Sandra Poppe’s researches on adaptation, in adopting their concept of Intermedialität (or intermediality, the term coined by Jay Bolter). The term intermediality should be prefferred over transmediality, intertextuality, bricolage, Verfilmung, adaptation or Ekphrasis, as it covers better and more adequately the complexity of relationships between film and literature. Essentially, the most specific and important relation between literature and film is intermediality, based on the visuality of literary text.

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