COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN NORTHUP’S NARRATIVE SLAVE “TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE” AND ITS ADAPTED MOVIE
Journal Title: ELS JOURNAL ON INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN HUMANITIES - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
Literary work and movie have their own characteristics even though both have the same storyline. Literary work reveal the story in narrative form while movie, reveal the story through audio and visual.Today many literary works adapted into movie.One of literary works adapted into movie is Twelve Years a Slave. Twelve Years a Slave is a work was written by Solomon Northup which is based on his journey life when he was become slave for twelve years. This work was adapted into movie, in 2013 with the same title. This study aims to find the differences and similarities of both version of literary work and its movie and to identify the process of adapting of literary work (narrative slave) into adaptation work (movie). The method used was document analysis and showcase the screenshot with using the structuralism which focus on the intrinsic elements of the story and comparing it with intrinsic elements on movie adaptation.This data analysis shows that there are many changes that occur in the adaptation work during the adaptation process.That was because the changes of medium and how to deliver the message be adjusted with duration and the existence of other supporting things such as the addition, reduction and improvisation of the scene.
Authors and Affiliations
Susi Astiantih
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP321856
- DOI -
- Views 169
- Downloads 0
Code Switching on Students’ Group Presentation in EFL Classroom
The study aimed to find out the functions of code switching used by the lecturer and the students during group presentation, and the lecturer and the students’ perception toward the use of code switching in EFL classroom...
THE POLITENESS STRATEGIES OF NEGATION USED BY ENGLISH AND BUGINESE
A good communication is a cooperate communication, but when someone wants to deny someone or something, it can be FTA (Face Threatening Acts) in some situations, so she/he needs to express it in polite way to save the fa...
Speech Genre: A Study of Gossip in Australian English Speaking Context
A gossip as a casual conversation usually occurs in diverse context or a wide range of social situations; has distinct and various topics; and involve an irregular set of participants. The scholars scrutinize that conver...
SYMBOL AND MEANING OF KAPATA ORAL TRADITION TEXTS IN CENTRAL MALUKU
The purposes of this research were (1) to reveal the kinds of symbols that applied in the texts of Kapata in Central Maluku and (2) to map out the meanings of the symbols. The data of this research was taken from texts o...
FORMS AND MEANINGS OF STATIVE VERBS IN PROGRESSIVE TENSE: A CORPUS LINGUISTICS RESEARCH
Semantics is the field of linguistic concerned with the study of meaning in language. The aims of the research are to analyze the forms and meanings of the stative verbs in progressive tense in corpora. The data of this...