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Atmospheric Adaptation as Cultural Translation (Ádám Bodor – Gábor Ferenczi: The Possibilities of Making Friends, 2007)

Dánél, Mónika (2016) Atmospheric Adaptation as Cultural Translation (Ádám Bodor – Gábor Ferenczi: The Possibilities of Making Friends, 2007). Contact Zones. Studies in Central and Eastern European Film and Literature. A Biannual Online Journal. ISSN 2498-8901

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Abstract

Abstract. In the theoretical part of my article, based primarily on the works of Gernot Böhme, Peter Zumthor, Mădălina Diaconu, Juhani Pallasmaa, I define the atmosphere as a complex phenomenon in which the aesthetic, social and geocultural potentials are simultaneously present. It equally depends on the represented environment, on medial representation as well as on the receiver’s (cultural, social and emotional) education. Analysing Gábor Ferenczi’s adaptation of short stories of Ádám Bodor, The Possibilities of Making Friends (2007), I investigate the creation and effect of atmosphere. The film employs narrative intermissions, but connects them into a (detective story-like) linearity, that closes with a punchline and applies the duality of optic and haptic visuality, keeps its viewers curious while also bodily involving them. This mode of cultural translation draws the viewers, hopefully not only Eastern Europeans socialised in the atmosphere of communism, into the community atmosphere of a dual dictatorial world of interwoven codes of observation and intimacy. Keywords: atmosphere, adaptation, contact zones, intimacy, surveillance, landscape, optical and haptic visuality, Ádám Bodor, Gábor Ferenczi

Item Type: Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PH Finno-Ugrian, Basque languages and literatures / finnugor és baszk nyelvek és irodalom > PH04 Hungarian language and literature / magyar nyelv és irodalom
P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PN Literature (General) / irodalom általában
P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PN Literature (General) / irodalom általában > PN1993 Motion Pictures / filmművészet
Depositing User: Dr. Mónika Dánél
Date Deposited: 02 Oct 2017 07:13
Last Modified: 02 Oct 2017 07:13
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/64763

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