In Resistance, Novel (Sheers, 2007) and Film (Gupta, 2011)
Miranda Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone / Multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal on the English- speaking world 21 | 2020 Modernism and the Obscene ‘The resonance of the music’ in Resistance, Novel (Sheers, 2007) and Film (Gupta, 2011) Annelie Fitzgerald Electronic version URL: http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/28131 DOI: 10.4000/miranda.28131 ISSN: 2108-6559 Publisher Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès Electronic reference Annelie Fitzgerald, “‘The resonance of the music’ in Resistance, Novel (Sheers, 2007) and Film (Gupta, 2011)”, Miranda [Online], 21 | 2020, Online since 13 October 2020, connection on 16 February 2021. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/28131 ; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/miranda.28131 This text was automatically generated on 16 February 2021. Miranda is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. ‘The resonance of the music’ in Resistance, Novel (Sheers, 2007) and Film (Gu... 1 ‘The resonance of the music’ in Resistance, Novel (Sheers, 2007) and Film (Gupta, 2011) Annelie Fitzgerald Introduction 1 Resistance, Owen Sheers’s acclaimed novel, was published in 2007 and released as a film in November 2011. Amit Gupta, the film’s director, and Sheers co-wrote the screenplay, and Resistance was subsequently nominated for three BAFTAs. There is a pleasing symmetry in the fact that Sheers’s first novel became Gupta’s first feature film.1 2 In her Theory of Adaptation, Linda Hutcheon reminds us that adaptations say things differently, but that they also say slightly different things (3). My objective in this analysis is to make a modest contribution to adaptation studies by examining the ‘transcoding’ of this novel into a film, along with some of the shifts in emphasis, the ‘slightly different things’, that the adaptation occasioned.
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