Stopmotion’ film adaptations of Roald Dahl’s ‘James and the Giant Peach’ and ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’
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Stopmotion’ film adaptations of Roald Dahl’s ‘James and the Giant Peach’ and ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’
Year of publication:
2018
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G-Pedreira, R., & Cortizas Varela, O. (2018). Adaptacións stopmotion de Fantastic Mr. Fox e James and the Giant Peach de Roald Dahl. Elos: Revista De Literatura Infantil E Xuvenil, (5). https://doi.org/10.15304/elos.5.4099
Abstract
The aim of this short article is to analyse the use of stopmotion filmmaking technique in two animation films based on Roald Dahl’s (United Kingdom, 1916-1990) James and the Giant Peach (1961) and Fantastic Mr. Fox (1979), deepening in the process of adaptation to the audiovisual format having into account the rhetoric of fantasy books. The first of them is a Walt Disney Pictures film which was produced by Tim Burton and Denise di Novi, directed by Henry Selick and released in 1996; the second one was produced by Indian Paintbrush and Regency Enterprises, directed by Wes Anderson and released in 2009. Therefore, during the communication will be briefly explained short theoretical input about Children and Young Adults Fantasy Literature, animation cinema and the influence of semiotic of both languages in the film adaptation resulting of combining both of them.
