GOMES, Maria Aparecida Elias.
Resumo:
Our work aims to demonstrate how the adaptations of the tract between the classic story and
the cinema adapted story starting from a comparative analysis between the fairy tale “Little
Red Riding Hood” by the French writer Charles Perrault and its cinematographic adaptation
directed by Catherine Hardwicke. We pay a particular attention on how the characters are
constructed and reformulated - especially the protagonists - in the story and the film
adaptation. The work is characterized as a bibliographic and analytical research. Among the
discussions are questions such as: the advent of children's literature, as well as the emergence
and importance of fairy tales; Cinema, its adaptations and their appropriations of fairy tales
and characters. Finally, we focus on the presentation and analysis of the works used. To the
accomplishment of the research, we are based on authors like Antônio Candido (1995), Beth
Brait (1985), Bruno Bettelheim (2000), Corso, D. L., Corso, M. (2006), Leonardo Arroyo
(1968), Linda Hutcheon (2013), Nelly Novaes Coelho (2000,2012), Robert Stam (2011),
among other experts. As a result of our study, we realized that in the process of adaptation,
the changes made from a work to the other enabled us to reflect on how the modern fairy
tales, spread by the cinema, have been promoting new faces and new readings of the works
wich are possibly directed to children.