Quase tudo diferente: processos teórico-metodológicos e teorização na análise da adaptação cinematográfica de ensaio sobre a cegueira (J. Saramago, 1995) pelo filme Blindness (F. Meirelles, 2008)

Abstract

This thesis presents an approach to theories of film adaptation, their theoretical and methodological assumptions, and their theorization. By promoting a study of objects of adaptive processes in cinema, it is understood that a theorizing action is also carried out. Thus, the objective of this work is to present a practice of analyzing an object based on a methodological proposal created for this purpose, and how this can function as a theorization of theories and the field of study. To this end, two works were selected, one literary and the other cinematographic (Ensaio sobre a cegueira, by José Saramago, and Blindness, by Fernando Meirelles). From an approach focused on theoretical and methodological plurality (Elliott, 2020), both works were analyzed in order to discuss how this process is characterized as a theorization of the field, taking as its central idea that the processes generate a product almost entirely different from the original work. Methodologically, the approach adopted was the methodological breadth (Elliott, 2020), and based on this proposition, the concept of interpretive effect (Santaella, 2004) was used as a tool for data analysis. From this analysis, the re-¬ signification of the concept of "almost the same thing," belonging to Umberto Eco (2007), emerges as a theoretical framework. As a result, it was understood that the theoretical--methodological search must adhere to the particularities of the proposed object and that the analysis process itself constructed a theorization within the field based on the process of analyzing objects within the field of study.