Literatura. Film. Szkic o powinowactwie

Abstrakt

LITERATURE. FILM. Draft affinity

The affinity of film and literature is analyzed in historical perspective, and more broadly, the methodological aspect of comparing and collating together ‘word and image’ ...
Recalling the historical aspect, it is easy to find in the sources certain awkwardness of humanistic reflection on not only the relationship between the arts, but especially the division and classification of ‘disciplines of art’. Ancient thinkers tried to resolve this issue citing nine muses, who took care of the individual disciplines. Taxonomy is relevant only in its historical context, because understanding of art and science in those days was completely different from the present. Despite this fact, modern thinkers revised the system many times while different creating taxonomies and introducing other divisions. Cinema was considered as the Tenth Muse the early twentieth century, but that decision was only symbolic.
It seems more appropriate to place the relationship of film and literature in the perspective of coexistence of words and images, whose affinity has been obvious in Mediterranean culture in last two thousand years. It manifests itself mainly through painting illustrations of literary topics. However, the temporary nature of perception of both film and literature, seems more appropriate an arena to compare film and literature. Separation of different material in these disciplines is possible. It entails the formation of the perspective of perception of temporary narrative structures, dramatic and semantic, as perception systems common to film and literature. The categories of the moving image and literary image are considered as helpful in detailed analysis.
The text ignores the problem of film adaptation of literary works and typical inter-semiotic issues, because of its special affinity and marginal.