analysis of the legal conditions that allowthe screen adaptation of a novel

and the relationship between these two artistic forms

Relatore:Prof.ssa Simona LavagniniCorrelatore:Prof.ssa Federica Villa

FROM AN UNFORGETTABLE NOVELTO A MASTERPIECE OF

CINEMA

Università degli Studi di PaviaDipartimenti di Scienze Politiche e Sociali,

Studi Umanistici, Giurisprudenza, Ingegneria Industriale e dell’Informazione,

Scienze Economiche e Aziendali

Corso di Laurea Interdipartimentale inComunicazione, Innovazione e Multimedialità

Sara AstolfiAnno Accademico 2013/2014

...reflections, decisions and indecisions that preceded the staging of the classic

Disney “Mary Poppins”...

negotiation processes

the entrepreneurial qualities of one of

the biggest stars of the entertainment

society

the possessive attitude of the

author in respect of his work

the fear that the meaning and the value of own history

could be distorted and trivialized because of

a screen adaptation

SCREEN ADAPTATION

FROM THE

LEGAL POINT OF

VIEW

the act of transferring the right processing

of the literary work

FROM THE

ARTISTIC POINT OF

VIEW

the relationship between the

literary work and the

cinematographic work

LEGALFRAMEWORK

literary work

cinematographic

work

LAW NO. 633 OF 22 APRIL 1941 CIVIL CODE OF 1942

(ARTS. 2575 – 2583) l. 633/1941, art. 1

“sono protette ai sensi di questa legge le opere dell'ingegno di carattere creativo che appartengono alla letteratura, alla musica, alle arti figurative,

all'architettura, al teatro ed alla cinematografia, qualunque ne sia il modo o la forma di espressione”

AUTHOR OF A

LITERARY OR ARTISTIC WORK

economicrights

moralrights

to preserve the interests related to the

defense of one's personality

and reputation

to gain a profit from own work

the transfer

to process it

to adapt it

to the

big screen

right to publish and reproduce it to make it available for distribution

author

of the

literary work

REEN ADAPTATIONSC

transfer the ownership of the right processing

author of the literary work

new

indipendent

derivativ

e

to the film producer

it will not have to

make changes that

affecting the original

message

it will not have to

change the perception

of the author’s

personality

CINEMATOGRAPHICWORK

ARTISTICPRODUCT

INDUSTRIALPRODUCT

author of the subject

law no. 633/1941

arts. 44 – 45

author of the

screenplay

author of the

music

art director

film produce

r

allocation of

economic rights

and

personal rights

SCREENADAPTATION

CINEMATOGRAPHIC

TRANSPOSITION

the author's ambition to keep alive in the time its creation through

a screen adaptation...

integral and literal correspondence

with the literary work

new interpretation of the source text

total andabsolute fidelity

a translation, a reworking of a text

to adapt it to a different form of expression

verbal

language

cinematographiclanguage

the change of the

basic idea of a

literary text,

from paper to

the world of images

process of

reworkingvariation and displacement

operations

synthesis and extension operations

condensation and expansion operations

NOVEL MOVIE

“Alice's Adventures in

Wonderland”

L. Carrol (1865)

“The Jungle Book” R. Kipling (1883)

“The Adventures of

Pinocchio”

C. Collodi

(1881)

Cinema, since its origins,

has been inspired by literature ...

“Mary Poppins”P. L. Travers

(1934)

“Mary Poppins” P. L. Travers

(1934)

“Mary Poppins” W. Disney

(1964)

CONCLUSION

FROM THE

LEGAL POINT OF

VIEW

FROM THE

ARTISTIC POINT OF

VIEW

law no. 633/1941 legal autonomy of cinematographic

work

the screen adaptation as a

new interpretation of the source text

thank you for your kind attention

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