¡Átame! to Take!: Visioning Almodóvar onto the American Stage
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2010-05
Authors
Maddox, Carter Weeks
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Abstract
Auteur Pedro Almodóvar’s work provides highly important representations of the Spanish-speaking world’s cultural viewpoint from the latter quarter of the twentieth century through today. English-speaking audiences appreciate his work, laud him with awards, and we have even begun to make his films into English-language stageplays. With this thesis, I argue that direct translation will not bring about understanding of Almodóvar’s typically Spanish ideas, and if we are to understand those ideas we must rely on a model of cultural adaptation instead. I then offer my stageplay Take! as an example of the proposed cultural adaptation.
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Almodovar, Pedro, translation, adaptation, original script, TAKE!, stageplays, Honors College
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Maddox, C. W. (2010). ¡Átame! to Take!: Visioning Almodóvar onto the American stage (Unpublished thesis). Texas State University-San Marcos, San Marcos, Texas.