THE CINEMATIC DE-EPICISATION OF THE EPIC NOVEL. THE CASE OF TOBACCO 1962
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2024
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Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski"
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The article analyses the film adaptation of the 1962 novel Tobacco, comparing the cinematic decisions of the director Nikola Korabov and the cinematographer Valo Radev with the processes of "deepicisation" in Bulgarian fiction of the 1960s. Particular attention is paid to the negative assessment of the film by the new generation of film critics, who believe that the adaptation sought epic scale rather than psychological depth and thus reinforced the weak rather than the strong aspects of the novel. The paradox is that ten years after the discussion of the novel Tobacco, a new discussion is taking place, now on the film Tobacco, in which the film is accused of the opposite of what the novel was criticized for. On the basis of the comparison between the narrative strategies of the novel and the cinematic decisions in the film, the paper claims that Nikola Korabov's Tobacco demonstrates a different, modern film poetics that is commensurate with the radical changes in Bulgarian fiction of the same decade.
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Bulgarian cinema, “Tobacco”, epic novel, de-epicisation, adap-tation, modernity