ELUSIVE PLAY IN THE ADAPTATION CLOUD ATLAS (2012)

• Authors: Getlík Peter
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This cognitively-oriented study is framed within the perspective of non-radical constructivism and it presents an analysis of a film adaptation using the adaptation-as-play model. It examines “elusive” adaptation, whose playfulness obscures specific adaptation techniques and leads to contradictory critical reception. The study focuses on the 2012 film adaptation Cloud Atlas, directed by Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, and Lilly Wachowski, based on David Mitchell’s 2004 novel of the same name. The findings demonstrate that the seemingly disordered playfulness of the adaptation systematically organises the adaptation through individual layers of (playful) adaptation processes.

Keywords

EN

ADAPTATION; CLOUD ATLAS; ADAPTATION STUDIES; FILM

• Publisher: Institute of Theatre and Arts, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenské divadlo (Slovak Theatre)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 72
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 255 – 265

Contributors

author

Getlík Peter

• FF UPJŠ v Košiciach, KSSFaK, Moyzesova 9, 040 01 Košice, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3820-620X

Identifiers

DOI

10.31577/sd-2024-0020