A new look on the theory of adaptation.

I think there is quite a bit of similarity between this hypothesis and the previous one we read. I understand it’s from the same work but again as before, It feels like repetition.  I do appreciate the new material when discussing adaptation across cultures and across time, not simply across medium.  One of my favorite quotes from the text was,

“Natural selection is both conservative and dynamic; it involves both stabilizing and mutating. In short, it is all about propagating jeans into future generations, identical in part, yet different. So two with cultural selection in the form of narrative adaptation-defined as theme and variation, repetition with modification.”

These couple sentences give us the idea of how time, political understandings, and culture affect both our understanding of text, are interpretation of the text, and the environment in which the text now must be adapted. Let’s take for example homosexuality.  And opinion may just a few years ago, whether your opinion has changed or not, may find you being in the majority to now being in the minority.  As is the same with theater and film. This new culture, A more compassionate understanding, has left those of just a short time ago, left out of the new cultural norms.

As Hutcheon and also pointed sets change over time.  I drawback to our film of Macbeth from Thursday, which was shot in modern day.  The stage in which the film was performed, WW2 esch, was obviously quite different than the staging Shakespeare’s mind.  This taking of the story, being for good or ill, and adapting it to a modern day situation leaves us with a new understanding of the entire idea.

This reading was slightly less painful than the first, and provided, what I think, was a slightly more interesting look at medium adaptation.