Chapter published in:
The Pragmatics of AdaptabilityEdited by N. Daniel Silva and Jacob L. Mey
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 319] 2021
► pp. 101–116
Chapter 5
Ad-appting children’s stories
Theo van Leeuwen | University of Southern Denmark
This chapter studies the multimedia adaptation of a classic children’s story, Dr Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat. Mixing story-telling with instructional instrumentality and lacking an interactive relationship with the story-teller, the story loses the ‘enchantment’ which, Bettelheim has argued, makes story-telling fundamental in the child’s development.
Keywords: adaptation, enchantment, multimedia, orality, story-telling
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Enchantment
- 3.Instruction
- 4. The Cat in the Hat
- 5.
The adaptation
- Sound
- Voice
- Music
- Camera movement
- Reading the story
- Interactivity
- Parental control
- 6.Conclusion
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References
Published online: 17 March 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.319.05van
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.319.05van
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