Elusive Play in the Adaptation Cloud Atlas (2012)
Elusive Play in the Adaptation Cloud Atlas (2012)

Summary/Abstract: This cognitively-oriented study is framed within the perspective of non-radical constructivism and it presents an analysis of a film adaptation using the adaptation-as-play model. It examines “elusive” adaptation, whose playfulness obscures specific adaptation techniques and leads to contradictory critical reception. The study focuses on the 2012 film adaptation Cloud Atlas, directed by Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, and Lilly Wachowski, based on David Mitchell’s 2004 novel of the same name. The findings demonstrate that the seemingly disordered playfulness of the adaptation systematically organises the adaptation through individual layers of (playful) adaptation processes.

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