Bradbury into film : a cinematic adaptation of Ray Bradbury's short story ‘The emissary’ (1947) as theory and practice

Abstract

Bradbury into Film is a journey into a world of whispering and soft singing about passion for storytelling permeated with the palimpsestic presence of Poe, Yeats, and mono no aware. It explores the issue of film adaptation and its faithfulness to the literary text. It delves into the history of the screenplay and attempts to determine if the screenplay functions as a fluid, hybrid text poised ambivalently and therefore, suggestively and productively, between word and screen. It looks at the aesthetic representations of American Gothic in Bradbury's short story ‘The Emissary’ and assesses Bradbury's connotative powers. It is an exercise in creativity "to enter the text" to uncover the Bradburian mysteries. And lastly, it is an interpretation of ‘The Emissary’ as a screenplay.