This study aims to comparatively study Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Tim Burton's namesake adaptation movie in the context of rewriting and domestication. A close analysis of both works has shown that the choice of themes, motifs and symbolization employed in relation to their symbolic dimensions reveals a profound criticism of capitalism. It is also observed that the aforementioned works focus on examples of shallow behavior styles, impaired value judgement and the presence of a burning ambition and a tendency to violence in fictional characters as a result of capitalist influence. This study, which claims that film adaptations are an act of rewriting, argues that an effort of domestication was shown during the adaptation process. In line with director Burton's cinematic preferences, the film is shaped within the framework of the characteristics of the target American culture. As a result of such rewriting, the adapted film presented to the target culture contains traces of the cosmopolitan structure of the American society and uses nationality-based choices of signification. On the other hand, this paper also claims that a certain amount of poetic effect is established as a result of such rewriting. This effect is clearly in line with present day psychoanalytic ways of reception which eventually strengthens yet again the current mainstream position of the original work of literature. Since the act of rewriting a literary work is part of producing discourse, it can be claimed that a network of global patronage will always be influential in situating mainstream literature.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Creative Arts and Writing |
Journal Section | Research Articles |
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Publication Date | August 25, 2021 |
Acceptance Date | June 19, 2021 |
Published in Issue | Year 2021 Issue: 6 |