João e Maria: um olhar intermidiático e comparativo entre literatura e cinema

Abstract

Literature and cinema have become constant and current in different situations such as interartistic and comparative studies because there is a need to align writing with the visual element. The justification for understanding the link between the two arts lies in the way in which the film adaptation/language Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, by Tommy Wirkola (2013), fits into the new intermedia and comparative literature, since the screenwriter is based on the story João de Maria, by the Brothers Grimm. The objective is to promote analysis through comparativism and through intermediality when reflecting on intersemiotic transmutation (Jakobson, 2001) and based on Clüver's media reference (2006, 2011). The problem lies in the fact that the film narrative is framed as a media reference and due to the parodic nature of which it uses visual signs to portray the effect of the supernatural and the wonderful. The work is based on the theoretical-methodological precepts of Demo (1994) based on bibliographical, qualitative, descriptive and analytical research and, also, on the inductive method and aesthetic-philosophical knowledge when promoting literary, media and comparative analysis between the literary work and the film. As a result, it is noted that intermediality and comparative literature allow opening new windows or possibilities for readings and literary analyses, since the works in question have an intermedial relationship due to their intertextual and transtextual conjectures provided by media transposition and reference.