TY - JOUR
TI - About Adapting Conrad’s Prose to Film
AU - Skolik, Joanna
TI - About Adapting Conrad’s Prose to Film
AB - 
	On the example of Apocalypse Now by F. F. Coppola, Heart of Darkness by N. Roeg, The Duellists by R. Scott, The Shadow Line by A. Wajda, and Secret Sharer by P. Fudakowski, I would like to show that Joseph Conrad’s prose is a cinematic trap for film directors. This being so, I attempt to answer the question as to why it is so difficult to make a film of something that is so cinematic, when it is being read, and why film adaptations that closely follow Conrad’s narratives are less Conradian than films which are “merely” inspired by Conrad’s works.
VL - 2019
IS - Vol. 14
PY - 2021
SN - 1899-3028
C1 - 2084-3941
SP - 93
EP - 107
DO - 10.4467/20843941YC.19.005.13231
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/yearbook-of-conrad-studies/article/about-adapting-conrads-prose-to-film
KW - Conrad
KW - film adaptation
KW - semantic dominant
KW - “The Secret Sharer
KW - ” Apocalypse Now