Working Title of the Project:

 

The relationship between the novel Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll in 1865 and its film adaptation produced by Disney in 1951

 

Background and Rationale:

 

This idea arrived when I was in my Language and Style class with Maj Iddings. In this class, my last paper I looked at a screenplay from the original Star Trek television series. This perked my interest in how much the text to the actual visual show.  In British Literature, we also looked at Frankenstein and with this we looked and the visual representation as used in moves and propaganda.

In my own personal curiosity and possible interest into becoming a screen play writer myself, I have continually tried to incorporate film into many of my projects that I have had the possibility to look at interaction in film and how it works. Film and literature isn’t something that is spoken about often and I think it is an important part of our surroundings.

 

The cultural differences surrounding the two sources has an influence over the final product where many things have changed in society and to adapt the story to make it understandable to the aimed audience is something that Disney aimed for in his production and when Carroll went to publish his children’s story into a novel he expanded the novel and allowed it to be more complex, fitting of a novel rather than a story.

 

Project Overview/ Methedology:

 

In this project I would like to look at Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and its visual interpretation by Disney Studios in the form of a movie. I want to look at the discrepancies between the two are. Still looking at what could make a great thesis.

 

I want to look at not only the process that goes into the film but the why one scene was chosen over another. The transition from literature to visual is difficult because there are many people to please when the film is based off a book. There is the interpretation and the possibility to complete the project and if it is doable or not. All the factors that play into making a film.

 

Looking at the cultural context such as war and inventions can help to create a sense of what was understandable at the time that each of these sources was created. This not only will it give a sense as to the situation in which these were created but to help understand the source as it came out. Also being able to look at reviews for each source when it came out to know what experts in their respective fields thought of the works.

 

Significance and Context:

 

As the age comes to be more and more digital, I wanted to evaluate how something can change from its original and be interpreted in a new way and what factors could possibly influence its changes, especially form text to film as that is one of the biggest transitions. Being able to look at something in its original form and its interpreted form allows to see words that were chosen and phrases that were kept to help keep that spirit of the original but modernize it enough so that it is understandable to the new and current audience. Through this I would like to show that as culture changes so does our interpretation of a story though experiences and inventions.