Da literatura ao cinema: um processo de transposição em Dom Casmurro

Abstract

This dissertation consists of semiotic and intersemiotic studies on the novel Dom Casmurro, by Machado de Assis, and the film Dom, a cinematographic adaptation by director Moacyr Góes. The approach is based on the generative trajectory proposed by the Lithuanian semioticist Algirdas Julien Greimas (1973, 1986, 2013, 2014, 2017), to show the inventory of functions and the semiotic square. Our main aim was to analyze, through semiotics, the novel and the film, based on the discourse model proposed by Greimas, along with film theories (EISENSTEIN, 2001; BAZIN, 1991; STAM, 2013). We emphasize how the development of the elementary, narrative and discursive structures, according to Greimas' concepts, found in these two works, helped forming the semiotic square. We discuss the evolution of Bento's main characteristics from the novel to the film, to understand the development of one work into another. For this, intersemiosis was necessary in order to observe the process of semiotic transformation. Finally, we elaborate Greimas' semiotic square to represent the actantial correlation in the novel and film. Semiotics has encompassed fields of study increasingly distinct, intensified with the advances of the interfaces between cultural assemblages. The proposed interlacing between novel and film invests in the possibility of analyzing the very aesthetic support that distinguishes them, allowing the investigation to perceive the cultural traits coming from such friction. Intersemiotic translation (PLAZA, 2001) serves as a basis for describing the relationships between these works.