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Monday, 26 May 2008

Pleasurable recognition in film adaptation

Posted by Catherine Grant at 10:25
Labels: Aristotle's Poetics, Beau Travail, Billy Budd, cueing recall, film adaptation, mimesis, pleasurable recognition, spectatorship

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Anagnorisis

A Film Studies blog by Catherine Grant, exploring matters of 'recognition' and 'insight' in audiovisual and literary culture (Anagnorisis -- from the ancient Greek -- means 'the moment of recognition or discovery')


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Useful Definition

  • "Recognition (re+cognition) is a process that occurs in thinking when some event, process, pattern, or object recurs. Thus in order for something to be recognized, it must be familiar. This recurrence allows the recognizer to more properly react, and has survival value."

Other Useful Links

  • Old Fogey on Moments of Recognition in Random Harvest
  • Mary Ann Doane, 'MISRECOGNITION AND IDENTITY', CINÉ-TRACTS: A JOURNAL OF FILM AND CULTURAL STUDIES,, Volume 3 Number 3, Fall, 1980. pp. 25-32
  • MAŁGORZATA MARCINIAK, 'THE APPEAL OF LITERATURE-TO-FILM ADAPTATIONS', Lingua ac Communitas Vol 17 (october 2007) (pdf file)
  • Work on face and pattern recognition by O. Arandjelović et al
  • Face Recognition of film characters in movies - Ankur Saxena