“What Kind of an Ending is That?” Adapting Shakespeare for a Young Audience: The Case of Gnomeo and Juliet (2011)
Elżbieta Rokosz
University of Rzeszów,PolandElzbieta Rokosz is Associate Professor at the Institute of Modern Languages, English Studies Department, University of Rzeszów. Her main academic interests have been in ethnic American autobiographical texts and in adaptations of literary texts into audio-visual media. She has been teaching American literature survey courses, a course on literature and film, and supervised numerous B.A. and M.A. diploma theses on American and British literature and culture. Her book publications (under her former last name Rokosz-Piejko) include Televised Classics. The British Classic Serial as a Distinctive Form of Literary Adaptation (2016), Hyphenated Identities: The Issue of Cultural Identity in Selected Ethnic American Autobiographical Texts (2011) and The Highlights of American Literature (2012, co-authored with Barbara Niedziela). Member of Polish Association for American Studies (since 2002) and of Association of Adaptation Studies (2012-2019).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7311-6165
Аннотация
The article discusses adapting William Shakespeare’s plays for young viewers. It aims to present the adaptive strategies taken up by the creators of an animated feature film based on Romeo and Juliet and to discuss how the production engages its audience in a cultural dialogue. One of the main points of consideration is that adaptations of literary classics into film productions addressed to young audiences can be analyzed as enriching the source texts with new dimensions, which might shed a sometimes surprisingly new light on the source text. The genre-change-induced modifications and intertextuality of Gnomeo and Juliet (2011) are discussed, focusing on how the production maneuvers between the source text and requirements of the genre, on the dialogue it involves its viewers in, and on its possible cultural role.
Ключевые слова:
adaptation, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare, animated feature film, intertextualityБиблиографические ссылки
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University of Rzeszów,Poland
Elzbieta Rokosz is Associate Professor at the Institute of Modern Languages, English Studies Department, University of Rzeszów. Her main academic interests have been in ethnic American autobiographical texts and in adaptations of literary texts into audio-visual media. She has been teaching American literature survey courses, a course on literature and film, and supervised numerous B.A. and M.A. diploma theses on American and British literature and culture. Her book publications (under her former last name Rokosz-Piejko) include Televised Classics. The British Classic Serial as a Distinctive Form of Literary Adaptation (2016), Hyphenated Identities: The Issue of Cultural Identity in Selected Ethnic American Autobiographical Texts (2011) and The Highlights of American Literature (2012, co-authored with Barbara Niedziela). Member of Polish Association for American Studies (since 2002) and of Association of Adaptation Studies (2012-2019).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7311-6165
