Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe in Cinematographic Adaptations: A Postcolonial and Intertextual Study
| dc.contributor.author | CHERIFI Ahcene | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-01-21T12:58:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-01-21T12:58:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description | 142p.; 30cm; +(CD-ROM) | |
| dc.description.abstract | The present dissertation is entitled “Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe in Cinematographic Adaptations: A Postcolonial and Intertextual Study”. It focuses on the relationship between Defoe’s first novel and some of its cinematographic adaptations notably Luis Buñuel’s The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1952), Jack Gold’s Man Friday (1975), and Robert Zemeckis’s Cast Away (2000). Taking its bearings from intertextual dialogism inflected towards cultural materialism, this work deals with these filmic adaptations as intertexts that engage in a dialogue with their source text from which they are brought into existence. Taking this approach into consideration, I have argued that the cinematic adaptations under scrutiny are not exact copies that attempt to replicate their source; far from that, the three films reinterpret, discuss and even criticize Defoe’s first novel. One has to note that the historical background has played a crucial role in shaping these adaptations in specific direction. Hence, the films are highly influenced by their social, cultural, economic and political environment. In addition, there is the impact of the filmmaker who unequivocally frames and shapes his film according to his aspirations, culture and ideology. Despite their sharp differences, Buñuel’s, Gold’s and Zemeckis’s respective films carry the same traditional pattern of the castaway story established in Robinson Crusoe. The studied cinematic adaptations contribute, in their own ways, to perpetuating the Crusoe myth. To carry out the ultimate purpose designed for this research, I have appealed to the concepts of a host of theorists like Mikhail Bakhtin (1984), Raymond Williams (1977), Gérard Genette (1997) and Graham Allen (2000). | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Cultural Studies | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.ummto.dz/handle/ummto/29605 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi-Ouzou | |
| dc.subject | Cinematographic Adaptation | |
| dc.subject | A Postcolonial | |
| dc.subject | Intertextual Study | |
| dc.title | Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe in Cinematographic Adaptations: A Postcolonial and Intertextual Study | |
| dc.type | Thesis |