The Role of Personal Situation in the Process of Film Adaptation : Ragtime (1975) by E.L. Doctorow and Ragtime (1981) by Miloš Forman

Authors

POSPÍŠIL Tomáš

Year of publication 2015
Type Chapter of a book
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description The author examines Miloš Forman's 1981 film Ragtime, which was based on the eponymous 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow. He demonstrates how the resulting product is affected by the filmmaker's history, memory and experience, authorial preferences. In addition he discusses the characteristics of the respective interpretive communities making sense of and evaluating both works.
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