I Am Not Sidney Poitier By Percival Everett As A Film Adaptation: Intermedial Approach
Abstract
The paper examines the features of selective adaptation – "novelization" in the novel by Percival Everett "I'm not Sidney Poitier" from the intermedial perspective. “Screen to book adaptation” or novelization is viewed as a phenomenon of the recent history of cinema-literature relationship. In his novel Percival Everett "I'm not Sidney Poitier" created a hybrid genre in which selective adaptation serves as a component. It has been found out that the writer uses the technique of intermedial reference as a means of intermedialisation. The author widely uses direct and hidden references to the primary movie source to produce the effect of immediate recognition and as a means of creating a parody and comic effect. In movie-related sections of the novel the author employs certain cinematographic techniques, namely organizing narration in units resembling scenes, that take place in a single location; quick change of these locations, brief and precise characterization, script-like style layout of conversation.The novel incorporates the plot elements and events borrowed from a number of movies from the acting career of the iconic figure of American cinema Sidney Poitier. Characteristic features of the main character of the novel are traced against the background of the typologized image of a positive African-American from the acting career of Sidney Poitier. It is concluded that the movie career of a well-known actor is being novelized in the novel.
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