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Year 2019, Volume 10 , Issue 2, Pages 481 - 509 2019-10-30

Reading Between the Images in Browning’s and Coppola’s Dracula Adaptations
Browning’in ve Coppola’nın Dracula Uyarlamalarında İmge Aralarını Okumak

Özlem Karadağ [1]

Abstract

This study compares two adaptations of Bram Stoker’s novel, Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931) and Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), using Linda Hutcheon’s theory of literary adaptation. Although listed as box-office oriented films, Dracula and Bram Stoker’s Dracula are important examples of adaptation, because each production adapts the novel in a different cultural and historical milieu; thus they each paraphrase the same text according to the anxieties of their times. The study explores the author’s and directors’ takes on the conflicts about class, gender, and “the other,” with close reference to the historical background of the novel and of each adaptation: the Victorian Age, the Great Depression, and the decade of the 1990s. Moving from Hutcheon’s theory, the study claims that each adaptation with its own loyalties to the text not only reveals the problems of its period while offering its unique interpretation of the novel, but also comes up with new texts that enable the audience to find new meaning in every choice made by its director. This is what “adaptation” means. 


Bu makale, Linda Hutcheon’ın uyarlama kuramını kullanarak, Bram Stoker’ın Dracula (1897) romanının iki uyarlamasının, Tod Browning’in Dracula (1931) ve Francis Ford Coppola’nın Bram Stoker’ın Dracula’sı (1992) filmlerinin karşılaştırmalı bir incelemesini sunar. Gişe odaklı filmler olarak görülmelerine rağmen Dracula ve Bram Stoker’ın Dracula’sı uyarlama için iki önemli örnek teşkil eder çünkü her biri romanı farklı bir kültürel ve tarihi arka planda uyarlar, bu nedenle metni kendi zamanlarının endişelerine göre yorumlarlar. Bu çalışma yazarın ve yönetmenlerin sınıf, cinsiyet ve “öteki” konuları hakkındaki çatışmaları ele alışlarını romanın ve uyarlamaların tarihi arka planlarıyla yani Victoria Dönemi, Büyük Buhran ve 1990lar ile yakın ilişki kurarak inceler. Hutcheon’ın kuramından yola çıkarak bu çalışma her bir uyarlamanın sadakat(sizlikler)i ile sadece döneminin sorunlarını farklı Drakula imgesi yorumlarını kullanarak yansıtmaya çalışmakla kalmayıp ayrıca seyirciye yönetmen(ler)in her bir seçimi ile yeni anlamlar üretme fırsatı tanıyan yeni metinler olarak ortaya çıkan, uyarlama tanımına uyan eserler olduklarını da kanıtlamaya çalışır. 


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Details

Primary Language en
Subjects Art
Journal Section Features
Authors

Orcid: 0000-0002-6670-6060
Author: Özlem Karadağ (Primary Author)
Institution: İSTANBUL ÜNİVERSİTESİ, EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ
Country: Turkey
Dates

Publication Date : October 30, 2019

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Bibtex @research article { sinecine639737, journal = {sinecine: Sinema Araştırmaları Dergisi}, issn = {2636-784X}, address = {Prof. Dr. S. Ruken Öztürk Ankara Ünv. İletişim Fakültesi Cebeci Kampusu 06590 Ankara}, publisher = {Semire Ruken ÖZTÜRK}, year = {2019}, volume = {10}, pages = {481 - 509}, doi = {10.32001/sinecine.639737}, title = {Reading Between the Images in Browning’s and Coppola’s Dracula Adaptations}, key = {cite}, author = {Karadağ, Özlem} }
APA Karadağ, Ö . (2019). Reading Between the Images in Browning’s and Coppola’s Dracula Adaptations. sinecine: Sinema Araştırmaları Dergisi , 10 (2) , 481-509 . DOI: 10.32001/sinecine.639737
MLA Karadağ, Ö . "Reading Between the Images in Browning’s and Coppola’s Dracula Adaptations". sinecine: Sinema Araştırmaları Dergisi 10 (2019 ): 481-509 <https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/sinecine/issue/49913/639737>
Chicago Karadağ, Ö . "Reading Between the Images in Browning’s and Coppola’s Dracula Adaptations". sinecine: Sinema Araştırmaları Dergisi 10 (2019 ): 481-509
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ISNAD Karadağ, Özlem . "Reading Between the Images in Browning’s and Coppola’s Dracula Adaptations". sinecine: Sinema Araştırmaları Dergisi 10 / 2 (October 2019): 481-509 . https://doi.org/10.32001/sinecine.639737
AMA Karadağ Ö . Reading Between the Images in Browning’s and Coppola’s Dracula Adaptations. sinecine. 2019; 10(2): 481-509.
Vancouver Karadağ Ö . Reading Between the Images in Browning’s and Coppola’s Dracula Adaptations. sinecine: Sinema Araştırmaları Dergisi. 2019; 10(2): 509-481.
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