Typology of Interpretations of Literary Sources in Screen Versions (Based on the Films of N. Mikhalkov and A. Tarkovsky)

Student: Zhuravleva Elizaveta

Supervisor: Stanislav Savitski

Educational Programme: Philology (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2020

In this paper the scrutinizing of screen version (adaptation) phenomena with the help of some theories is presented. The main aim of the paper is to reveal the specialties of the literary sources` interpretations in screen versions on the material of N. Mikhalkov`s and A. Tarkovsky`s films and to connect each movie to the certain type of sreen version. The special attention is paid to the problem of fidelity, the simularities and differences of literature and cinema. Also some classifications of adaptation are considered for the analysis. Conclusion contains the ideas about independence of screen version, about necessity to use peculiar cinema-methods adaptating the original source to the screen, and the existing classifications` incapability to embrace all the types of relatioships between literature and cinema in adaptations.

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