The (im)possibility of filming Ibsen

• DOI: 10.7557/13.3381
• Publication Date: 2015-10-28T11:40:39Z
• Authors: Melvin Chen
• Keywords: Realm; Antithesis

This article begins by taking the paucity of good filmed versions Ibsen as an empirical fact or a given, it were. It then introduces Shakespeare premise, which proceeds to adopt valid. opens up possible conclusion that great film adaptations might arise from dramatic texts, possibility strengthened my second premise cinema and theatre constitute sister arts, particularly in Bazinian realm mixed cinema. At same time, allows me suspend immediate is impossible make Ibsen, suspension judgment reflected use brackets title article. After dispensing with Panofsky’s thesis strict antithesis false I Bloomian framework discuss how plays may be adapted so fulfil premise. consider aesthetic principles developed aid potential film-maker who likewise driven concomitant hidden whose texts share natural priority canonical prestige Shakespeare’s texts. My final remains open-ended but positive: day ease on horizon, although discussion will – hope have gone some way helping bring film-in-the-making into fruition.