Post on 16-Dec-2015
analysis of the legal conditions that allowthe screen adaptation of a novel
and the relationship between these two artistic forms
Relatore:Prof.ssa Simona LavagniniCorrelatore:Prof.ssa Federica Villa
FROM AN UNFORGETTABLE NOVELTO A MASTERPIECE OF
CINEMA
Università degli Studi di PaviaDipartimenti di Scienze Politiche e Sociali,
Studi Umanistici, Giurisprudenza, Ingegneria Industriale e dell’Informazione,
Scienze Economiche e Aziendali
Corso di Laurea Interdipartimentale inComunicazione, Innovazione e Multimedialità
Sara AstolfiAnno Accademico 2013/2014
...reflections, decisions and indecisions that preceded the staging of the classic
Disney “Mary Poppins”...
negotiation processes
the entrepreneurial qualities of one of
the biggest stars of the entertainment
society
the possessive attitude of the
author in respect of his work
the fear that the meaning and the value of own history
could be distorted and trivialized because of
a screen adaptation
SCREEN ADAPTATION
FROM THE
LEGAL POINT OF
VIEW
the act of transferring the right processing
of the literary work
FROM THE
ARTISTIC POINT OF
VIEW
the relationship between the
literary work and the
cinematographic work
LEGALFRAMEWORK
literary work
cinematographic
work
LAW NO. 633 OF 22 APRIL 1941 CIVIL CODE OF 1942
(ARTS. 2575 – 2583) l. 633/1941, art. 1
“sono protette ai sensi di questa legge le opere dell'ingegno di carattere creativo che appartengono alla letteratura, alla musica, alle arti figurative,
all'architettura, al teatro ed alla cinematografia, qualunque ne sia il modo o la forma di espressione”
AUTHOR OF A
LITERARY OR ARTISTIC WORK
economicrights
moralrights
to preserve the interests related to the
defense of one's personality
and reputation
to gain a profit from own work
the transfer
to process it
to adapt it
to the
big screen
right to publish and reproduce it to make it available for distribution
author
of the
literary work
REEN ADAPTATIONSC
transfer the ownership of the right processing
author of the literary work
new
indipendent
derivativ
e
to the film producer
it will not have to
make changes that
affecting the original
message
it will not have to
change the perception
of the author’s
personality
CINEMATOGRAPHICWORK
ARTISTICPRODUCT
INDUSTRIALPRODUCT
author of the subject
law no. 633/1941
arts. 44 – 45
author of the
screenplay
author of the
music
art director
film produce
r
allocation of
economic rights
and
personal rights
SCREENADAPTATION
CINEMATOGRAPHIC
TRANSPOSITION
the author's ambition to keep alive in the time its creation through
a screen adaptation...
integral and literal correspondence
with the literary work
new interpretation of the source text
total andabsolute fidelity
a translation, a reworking of a text
to adapt it to a different form of expression
verbal
language
cinematographiclanguage
the change of the
basic idea of a
literary text,
from paper to
the world of images
process of
reworkingvariation and displacement
operations
synthesis and extension operations
condensation and expansion operations
NOVEL MOVIE
“Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland”
L. Carrol (1865)
“The Jungle Book” R. Kipling (1883)
“The Adventures of
Pinocchio”
C. Collodi
(1881)
Cinema, since its origins,
has been inspired by literature ...
“Mary Poppins”P. L. Travers
(1934)
CONCLUSION
FROM THE
LEGAL POINT OF
VIEW
FROM THE
ARTISTIC POINT OF
VIEW
law no. 633/1941 legal autonomy of cinematographic
work
the screen adaptation as a
new interpretation of the source text