L’image qui parle : comment traduire l’altérité par l’adaptation de la poésie au cinéma ?
The visual aspect in the Illuminations of Rimbaud brought us to ask us if it was possible to adapt these poems to the cinema. There were of course several researches on the cinema of the 20s which investigated the poetic creation. Other researches were led to find tracks of poetry in a little more conventional narrative movies. Although these studies are very interesting, we wanted to aim towards a more radical approach. Our research work aimed at finding the means to make an adaptation of completely autonomous poem of the original work. Although we bend over the Surrealist texts by the intervention of Man Ray, we also studied more recent attempts of adaptation of poems to the cinema. We discovered a link between these adaptations and the notion of otherness. That is why we decided to deal with our subject under the angle of the otherness of the philosophic point of view. Moreover, three movies which we retained for our research work present situations of marginalization. The marginalization is one of the aspects of the otherness which interest us. The first chapter of this thesis is intended to establish what we mean by otherness. In the second chapter, we approach the adaptation of the poetry to the cinema in connection with the otherness. We adapted eighteen poems of the Illuminations of Rimbaud under the shape of a scenario in the second part of this thesis to try to investigate what we established in our theoretical part.
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