The Great Gatsby meets Alain Badiou

The Great Gatsby meets Alain Badiou
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Publisher : AOSIS
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 9781779952868
ISBN-13 : 1779952864
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Book Synopsis The Great Gatsby meets Alain Badiou by : Ursula Vooght

Download or read book The Great Gatsby meets Alain Badiou written by Ursula Vooght and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this book is a consideration of the usefulness of the concept of fidelity put forward by the philosopher Alain Badiou in the discussion of film adaptation. Fidelity or faithfulness is primarily a consideration that emerges in relation to so-called canonical texts in adaptation: Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby occupies a position of global recognisability and, within the United States, cultural mythology that has triggered strong reactions to the four Hollywood adaptations. The various adaptations allow for the differing approaches to the adaptation of this novel to be meaningfully explored. The film adaptations’ paratextual elements will be discussed in order to show how these acted as limiting lenses. The strategies of the films for handling elements of Fitzgerald’s prose and themes will be compared across the adaptations. This will culminate in an assertion of the worth of a larger application of a Badiouian fidelity within the field.


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