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Lights, Camera, Literature : The Cinematic World of "Glamorama"

HACHLEROVÁ, Nela

Základní údaje

Originální název

Lights, Camera, Literature : The Cinematic World of "Glamorama"

Autoři

HACHLEROVÁ, Nela

Vydání

7th International Conference of English and American Studies, SILESIAN STUDIES IN ENGLISH — SILSE 2024, Opava, 5-6 September 2024, 2024

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova česky

Bret Easton Ellis; Glamorama; americká literatura; filmový narativ; intermedialita

Klíčová slova anglicky

Bret Easton Ellis; Glamorama; American literature; filmic narrative; intermediality

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 20. 1. 2025 13:54, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

Drawing on the theory of filmic modes in literature, this presentation will delineate how elements traditionally associated with the film medium are adapted into Bret Easton Ellis’s Glamorama, a novel that offers a vivid portrayal of celebrity culture. Ellis uses filmic narrative techniques to mirror the highly visual medium of film with the visual-centric nature of the celebrity world depicted in the novel, as he also offers a critique of a society obsessed with image and spectacle. While the theoretical framework will provide a foundation for analyzing the novel’s interplay between literary and cinematic forms, by presenting specific examples from Glamorama, this paper will demonstrate which filmic narrative strategies are used. These are reminiscent of, among others, an establishing shot to situate scenes within a broader visual context, montage mirrored by quick, successive descriptions or events edited together to condense time, space, and information, or a soundtrack, adding an auditory dimension to the predominantly visual narrative.