Cultural Transduction and Adaptation Studies: The Concept of Cultural Proximity

Authors

  • Patrick Cattrysse Author Universiteit Antwerpen Université Libre de Bruxelles Emerson College European Centre

Keywords:

Adaptation studies, film adaptation, film studies

Abstract

This paper looks at the concept of cultural proximity, as suggested by Joseph Straubhaar in his 1991 paper Beyond Media Imperialism: Assymmetrical [sic] Interdependence and Cultural Proximity. It argues that, based on a polysystem study of film noir adaptations from the early 1990s, both cultural proximity and distance may either enhance or inhibit the cross-cultural or cross-generic flow of media content depending on some specific conditioners such as the stability or instability (e.g., success or lack thereof) of the target genre or context and the conservative or innovating function of the adaptations in their target context.

doi: 10.5294/pacla.2017.20.3.3

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Author Biography

Patrick Cattrysse, Universiteit Antwerpen Université Libre de Bruxelles Emerson College European Centre

Patrick Cattrysse is an independent researcher. He currently teaches narrative studies and adaptation studies at the Universiteit Antwerpen and screenwriting studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He also teaches Media Theory & Criticism and Intercultural Communication at Boston’s Emerson College European Center (in the Netherlands).

Patrick Cattrysse has worked as a screenwriter-producer for educational television before entering the academic world in the mid-1980s, where, among other subjects, he has taught screenwriting in various European countries, Cuba, Canada and the US.

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Published

2017-06-08

How to Cite

Cattrysse, P. (2017). Cultural Transduction and Adaptation Studies: The Concept of Cultural Proximity. Palabra Clave, 20(3). Retrieved from https://palabraclave.unisabana.edu.co/index.php/palabraclave/article/view/6932

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 3 (2017): Cultural Transduction

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