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“The woods are burning, boys, you understand?” Exploring directorial choices in the adaptation of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman to Film

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dc.contributor.advisorGuerrero Llorente, Isabel
dc.contributor.authorMarques Simão, Lurdes Maria
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-18T11:18:56Z
dc.date.available2024-12-18T11:18:56Z
dc.date.issued2024-09-10
dc.description.abstractThis TFG aims to critically analyse how Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, an iconic work of the modern American theater, is adapted to film in countries outside the United States. In order to do this, three screen adaptations are examined: the 1963 German TV film Der Tod eines Handlungsreisenden, directed by Michael Kehlmann; the 1979 Swedish TV film En Handelsresandes död, directed by Bo Widerberg; and the 2016 Iranian-French feature film The Salesman, written and directed by Asghar Farhadi. While there is a certain number of works dealing with the American film adaptations of Miller’s theatrical text, very few academic research has been conducted so far on film adaptations from outside the Anglo-American world. Moving away from a narrow comparative analysis between filmic adaptations and source playtext, which solely judges fidelity or infidelity to the “original” and value adaptations as minor artistic products, the aim of this essay is to examine these directors’ choices by focusing on the main narrative, thematic and aesthetic features of their film adaptations. The analysis is carried out within the framework of adaptation studies, resorting to the pioneering and influential works of Robert Stam (2000, 2005) and Linda Hutcheon (2013). The findings of the analysis reveal that in the adaptation of Miller’s theatrical text each film director proceeds through distinct creative decisions, reworking the story according to a process that involves both reproduction and transformation, while also incorporating key elements of realism and/or expressionism in the play. Making use of distinct resources and film techniques, these film-makers’ creative choices, while also shaped by specific contexts, make each one of these adaptations a unique artistic statement of Death of a Salesman.en
dc.identifier.citationMarques Simão, Lurdes Maria, 2024. “The woods are burning, boys, you understand?” Exploring directorial choices in the adaptation of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman to Film, Trabajo Fin de Grado. Universidad de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/24974
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversidad de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Facultad de Filología. Departamento de Filologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas
dc.relation.centerFacultad de Filología
dc.relation.degreeGrado en Estudios Ingleses: Lengua, Literatura y Cultura
dc.relation.departmentFilologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas
dc.relation.specializationIntroducción al Teatro en Lengua Inglesa
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject55 Historia::5505 Ciencias auxiliares de la historia::5505.10 Filología
dc.subject.keywordsDeath of a Salesmanen
dc.subject.keywordsArthur Milleren
dc.subject.keywordsfilm adaptationen
dc.subject.keywordsadaptation studiesen
dc.subject.keywordscontemporary American theatreen
dc.title“The woods are burning, boys, you understand?” Exploring directorial choices in the adaptation of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman to Filmen
dc.typeproyecto fin de carreraes
dc.typebachelor thesisen
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