Onde está W. Shakespeare? - Um estudo das relações dialógicas no filme Assunto de meninas

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze the intertextual resources recreated from plays by William Shakespeare, in the film Canadian film, Lost and Delirious, released in 2001, directed by Léa Pool and script adapted by Canadian playwright, Judith Thompson, in which heteronormative relationships of dramatic texts are re-signified, socially and historically, in the lesbian love relationship between two young students, in our contemporary world. At first, using the taxonomy of Gérard Genette (2010) as a hypothesis possibility, however, in the course of the analysis it was observed that the intertexts are not shelves, they cross each other, in this way we resorted to Jacques Derrida and to post-structuralism, which we disconnected from the rules, in that way, making each act of reading, relative. A story told from the perspective of Mary, a newest student at Perkins Girls High School, builds the development of strong bonds of friendship between three roommates - Paulie, Tory and Mary herself – as well as romance between the first two, protagonists of narrative that they see prevented from staying together, because they deal with impasses caused by the prejudice of their families and friends, and by the deep crises that they experience in the tortuous path seeking for acceptance. In this way, themes such as love, lies, prejudice, power, life, death, all other aspects of the English playwright, are exposed and inserted in the critical form of today's society. Intertextual movements make it possible to think of the text as a mosaic of several other texts, demonstrating that often unconsciously the translation also results in many intertexts that arise, and a deviation from the mere transportation of meanings.