Film i dramat. "Śmierć i dziewczyna" Romana Polańskiego

• Authors: Małgorzata Choczaj

Title variants

EN

Film and Drama. Roman Polanski’s “Death and the Maiden”

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Film and Drama. Roman Polanski’s “Death and the Maiden” Death and the Maiden by Roman Polański is an example of an experimental transposition of Ariel Dorman’s drama into the visual language of film. The merging of words and pictures in the film is compared to Bachtin’s dialogisation which permeates the element of the European novel. The meaning and motivation of the words in the characters’ dialogues influences the development of the action, form and rhythm of the takes as well as their juxtaposition with the characters and props. Polański does not limit himself only to a single-track effect. As dialogisation influences the forms of visualization, so images broaden the meanings of the dialogues, creating new contexts. The film is not only an attempt to prove that the alleged or real rapist was guilty, but also a study of the dishonoured woman’s fight for a right to live without traumatic reminiscences.  

EN

Death and the Maiden by Roman Polański is an example of an experimental transposition of Ariel Dorman’s drama into the visual language of film. The merging of words and pictures in the film is compared to Bachtin’s dialogisation which permeates the element of the European novel. The meaning and motivation of the words in the characters’ dialogues influences the development of the action, form and rhythm of the takes as well as their juxtaposition with the characters and props. Polański does not limit himself only to a single-track effect. As dialogisation influences the forms of visualization, so images broaden the meanings of the dialogues, creating new contexts. The film is not only an attempt to prove that the alleged or real rapist was guilty, but also a study of the dishonoured woman’s fight for a right to live without traumatic reminiscences.  

Keywords

PL

drama and film; the language of film; transposition; adaptation; dialogisation; adaptacja; Śmierć i dziewczyna; Roman Polański

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 13-14
• Pages: 111-121

Dates

published

2009-06-13

Contributors

author

Małgorzata Choczaj

• Katedra Filmu, Telewizji i Nowych Mediów, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

References

• R. Polanski, Death and the Maiden Interview, http:11minadream.com1romanpoianski1 DeathAndTheMaiden.htm (download 21.11.2008).
• J. Paech, Literatur und Film, Stuttgart - Weimar 19972, s. 104.
• Loughney, In the Beginning was the Word. Six Pre-Griffith Motion Pictures Scénarios,Cyt. za: J. Paech, op. cit., s. 105.
• S. Roterberg, PhilosophischeFilmtheorie, Würzburg 2008, s. 21.
• S. Kracauer, Teoria filmu. Wyzwolenie materialnej rzeczywistości, przeł. W. Wertenstein, wstęp A. Heiman, Warszawa 1975, s. 241.
• M. Bachtin, Problemy literatury i estetyki, przeł. W. Gajewski, Warszawa 1982, s. 131.
• F.X. Feeney, Roman Polański, przeł. J. Halbersztat, Warszawa 2006, s. 151.
• R. Polański, Death and the Maiden Interview, http:11minadream.com1romanpoianski1 DeathAndTheMaiden.htm (download 21.11.2008).
• J. Eder, Die Figurim Film. Grundlagen der Figurenanalyse, Marburg 2008, s. 731.
• A. Dorfman, Śmierć i dziewczyna, przeł. M. Se-mii,„Dialog" 1992, nr 1o, s. 41-67.

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/i.2009.13.14.09