„Uksiążkowienie” jako problem estetyczno- -medialny. Obcy – ósmy pasażer Nostromo – studium przypadku
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2014
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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“Novelization” as an aesthetic and media issue: Alien – a case study
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There is no literature (e.g. a novel, feature film) without a medium (e.g. a book, film), but one
should be clearly differentiated from the other. Particular works can only be compared based on
a comparison made between particular means of expression, i.e. media. A production-related and
aesthetic approach, which has been regarded as unscientific for a long time, should be replaced
by the much more appropriate media-related and aesthetic approach.
Werner Faulstich and Ricarda Strobel’s reflections on the novelization of film refer to Ridley
Scott’s picture titled Alien (1979), Richard J. Anobile’s movie novel (photonovel) which is based
on Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson’s comics as well as to Alan Dean Foster’s novelized
screenplays. Moreover, references are also made to two popular-science books: Paul Scanlon and
Michael Gross’s The Book of Alien (New York 1979) and H.R. Giger’s Giger’s Alien (Basel 1979),
which are treated as “books written on the basis of a film”. The film Alien deals, in a disguised
form, with the topic of a man’s fear of a woman as the one who gives birth. It describes the sequence
of processes that occur in a woman’s body, from conception and pregnancy to birth, as
seen by a man who is “on the outside”. A man perceives a woman’s reproductive capacity, which
is unattainable to him, as something alien and disturbing.
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Przestrzenie Teorii, 2014, nr 22, s. 231-259
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978-83-232-2827-1
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1644-6763