Angela’s Ashes – A Memoir: Images of a Particular View of Limerick, Ireland

Autori

  • Brunilda T. Reichmann UNIANDRADE

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v9i0.3700

Parole chiave:

Frank McCourt, Angela’s ashes, Film adaptation.

Abstract

This paper deals with some still images from the film Angela’s ashes:
A memoir, directed by Alan Parker and based on the Pulitzer-Prize-winning
memoir with the same title, by Frank McCourt. The analysis of the images shows that Parker sometimes transfers and at other times adapts (according to Brian MacFarlane’s theory of film adaptation) the material of the memoir or the narrator’s experience as a boy, and his specific view of Limerick, Ireland, at a particular time in history.

Biografia autore

  • Brunilda T. Reichmann, UNIANDRADE

    REICHMANN, BRUNILDA T. completed her MA and her PhD in Comparative Literature in the USA in the 80’s. She has worked as a translator, writer, and professor (UFPR and Uniandrade) for the last 30 years. Of her written works, The essence of tragedy and The narrator in metafiction are the most important. She has translated “Silent Snow, Secret Snow,” by Conrad Aiken, published in Os Herdeiros de Poe; she has also translated short stories by David Lodge, Kazuo Ishiguro, William Boyd and Rose Tremain, published in Contos dos anos 80 e 90, traduzidos do inglês. Presently she works as a professor on the Master’s Program in Theory of Literature at Uniandrade.

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Mccourt, Frank. Angela’s ashes. A memoir. New York: Touchstone, 1996.

McFarlane, Brian. Novel to film: An introduction to the theory of adaptation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Stam, Robert. “Beyond fidelity: The dialogics of adaptation”. In Naremore, James. Film adaptation. New Jersey: Rutgers, 2000, p. 54-76.

Dowloads

Pubblicato

2007-06-17

Fascicolo

V. 9 (2007): ABEI Journal 9

Sezione

Translations and Historical Narratives

Come citare

Reichmann, B. T. (2007). Angela’s Ashes – A Memoir: Images of a Particular View of Limerick, Ireland. ABEI Journal, 9, 153-162. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v9i0.3700