Hermeneutical characteristic of intermediation based on the relation between the Tragedy of man written by Imre Madách and animation of Marcell Jankovics Cover Image

Az intermedialitás hermeneutikai sajátosságairól – Madách Imre Az ember tragédiája és Jankovics Marcell animációs rajzfilmjének kölcsönviszonya alapján
Hermeneutical characteristic of intermediation based on the relation between the Tragedy of man written by Imre Madách and animation of Marcell Jankovics

Author(s): Zsuzsanna Máté
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Media studies, Hungarian Literature, Hermeneutics
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Новом Саду
Keywords: intermediation; hermeneutics; verbal/visual/audible mediums; transformation; transmediation; adaptation; animation; Imre Madach; The Tragedy of Man; Marcell Jankovics

Summary/Abstract: Marcell Jankovics’s animated film titled The Tragedy of Man is in fact the adaptation of Madách’s main work, however, besides this, with the further thinking of the literary text, and placing it into set of mediums resulting a saturation of meanings he has already created a sovereign, autonomous piece of art. The “dramaturgy of dreams” within the intermedial animated movie including the magnitude of Madách’s literary work not only illustrates and adapts the hypotext, but it even offers a related re-interpretation to it. As a result, by means of the intertwining of communication channels, it creates a complex, ever-changing formation of statements within the intermediality of text-image-music. This process is accompanied by a saturation of meanings, resulting the emergence of countless symbols and grotesque images to match the hypotext, thus extending its interpretative modalities, fulfilling its “ability to be filled up”.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 97-117
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Hungarian