Adaptation of poem

1. SCREEN
SHOT 2016-
04-08 AT
15.47.58
DR STEVE GAUNSON
TEXTUAL CROSSINGS
RMIT UNIVERSITY

2. ANALOGY
THESE ARE OFTEN
'INSPIRED BY' OR 'BASED
ON' ADAPTATIONS.
Goes further than
published work
Provides a
cultural and
social context
Howl is the
“making of” and
“response to”

3. CELEBRATION — HEAVY RELUCTANCE
TO CHANGE THE EXACT WORDS OR
SENTIMENT OF THE SOURCE.

4. ADJUSTMENT — ADJUSTS, CHANGES, AND
ALTERS THE SOURCE WITHOUT LOSING THE
SENTIMENT.

5. COLONISATION — THE ADAPTER
PUTS THEIR OWN UNIQUE STYLE ON
THE SOURCE.
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
Coming from a documentary tradition
Gay-rights related topics in productions such as
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) and Celluloid
Closet (1995)
However, the result transformed into something
different from a traditional documentary.
• The finished film is mixed in many ways:
• a portrait of Allen Ginsberg
• but it is also a semi-documentary about the 1957

6. COLONISATION — THE ADAPTER PUTS
THEIR OWN UNIQUE STYLE ON THE
SOURCE.

7. FINAL THOUGHT
Howl the film received a
mixed critical response.
[n]ot quite a biopic, not
really a documentary and
only loosely an
adaptation
How do you define this
film?
How would you market
this film?
Is the film a success?
Does it make you want to
read Howl?