João e Maria, caçadores de bruxas: a tradução intersemiótica em adaptação fílmica.

Abstract

The aim of this research is to investigate the adaptation of the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel to the cinema, taking into consideration intersemiotic elements associated with contextual and temporal elements that might influence in the construction of the main characters. This research is motivated by the growing popularity of film adaptations based on fairy tales. The theoretical framework presents studies related to Translation Studies, Adaptation and Cinema. Among the authors studied Hutcheon (2011) and Mundt (2008) discuss literary adaptation and Cusates (2008) contributes with literary translation. Regarding Translation Studies, contributions come from Oustinoff (2011) and Jakobson (2000); while in the Cinema field considerations are presented by Bernardet (2009), Aumont (1993) and Curado (2007). Contributions on fairy tales come from Órru (2012) and Bettelheim (2002). Data collection was based on the descriptive and interpretative approach as well as the qualitative one. The corpus consists of scenes extracted from the movie presenting images and language that are relevant to our study both in images and through subtitles in Brazilian Portuguese. Results have shown that the movie adaptation of the literary work portraits elements that are similar to the original story, as well as elements that are different. This varies due to the products and elements involved in the adaptation such as producers, exhibitors and spectators.