https://doi.org/10.11649/ch.2018.008 Colloquia Humanistica 7 (2018) Against Homogeneity. Transcultural and Trans-Lingual Strategies in Cultural Production COLLOQUIA HUMANISTICA Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics Amir KapetanovićZagreb
[email protected] Kaya: from Novella to Film Abstract Te paper analyses the transformation of Kruno Quien’s novella Kaya into a screenplay adaptation and a flm of the same title by eminent Croatian director Vatroslav Mimica. Te analysis points out signifcant characteristics of both the transformation of the text and the transformation of the portrayed Mediterranean urban area (a crime in Trogir), as well as the linguistic stylization of the characters’ Trogir dialect, which contributes to the atmosphere of the flm. Discussions surrounding the flm have so far only unfolded on the basis of a comparison between Quien’s novella and Mimica’s flm. Tis analysis thus contributes important information about the structural and narrative characteristics of the unpublished screenplay, shedding more light on the paths towards leading to the creation of this Croatian flm, which is considered Mimica’s best work and one of the best Croatian flms. Keywords: Cakavian, dialect, flm analysis, Vatroslav Mimica, Croatian cinematography. Tis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 PL License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/), which permits redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, provided that the article is properly cited. © Te Author(s), 2018 Publisher: Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences Editor-in-chief: Jolanta Sujecka Conception and academic editing of this issue: Maciej Falski, Tomasz Rawski, Jolanta Sujecka with the collaboration of Ewa Niedziałek Amir Kapetanović 1.