Travelling Girlhood: Feminist Discourses as Narrative Resources for the American Adaptation of the Norwegian High-School Drama SKAM
In the American adaptation of the Norwegian youth drama SKAM (2015-2017), the translation of feminist discourse informing the plot shifts the conflict from a social, political, and democratic level to a question of liberation from within. This shift – from the familiarized inter-relational conflict...
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Fincham Press
2022-11-01
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| Colección: | International Journal of Young Adult Literature |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://ijyal.ac.uk/articles/10.24877/IJYAL.73 |
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| author | Dag Skarstein Synnøve Skarsbø Lindtner |
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| description | In the American adaptation of the Norwegian youth drama SKAM (2015-2017), the translation of feminist discourse informing the plot shifts the conflict from a social, political, and democratic level to a question of liberation from within. This shift – from the familiarized inter-relational conflict of filmic melodrama to a conflict within the protagonist’s inner landscape – comes with some interconnected dramaturgical implications that change the invited audience’s opportunities to make sense of the plot at the same time as they complicate the interpretation process. Drawing particularly on theories of melodrama and youth fiction, our analysis indicates that the conflict level might particularly problematize the issue of engagement when the medium is filmic. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dbd85c9c593d40d29a98c13c4cf5cd3f2023-12-02T23:00:13ZengFincham PressInternational Journal of Young Adult Literature2634-52772022-11-013112110.24877/IJYAL.73Travelling Girlhood: Feminist Discourses as Narrative Resources for the American Adaptation of the Norwegian High-School Drama SKAMDag SkarsteinSynnøve Skarsbø LindtnerIn the American adaptation of the Norwegian youth drama SKAM (2015-2017), the translation of feminist discourse informing the plot shifts the conflict from a social, political, and democratic level to a question of liberation from within. This shift – from the familiarized inter-relational conflict of filmic melodrama to a conflict within the protagonist’s inner landscape – comes with some interconnected dramaturgical implications that change the invited audience’s opportunities to make sense of the plot at the same time as they complicate the interpretation process. Drawing particularly on theories of melodrama and youth fiction, our analysis indicates that the conflict level might particularly problematize the issue of engagement when the medium is filmic.https://ijyal.ac.uk/articles/10.24877/IJYAL.73high school dramafeminismmelodramaadaptationsocio-political context |
| spellingShingle | Dag Skarstein Synnøve Skarsbø Lindtner Travelling Girlhood: Feminist Discourses as Narrative Resources for the American Adaptation of the Norwegian High-School Drama SKAM International Journal of Young Adult Literature high school drama feminism melodrama adaptation socio-political context |
| title | Travelling Girlhood: Feminist Discourses as Narrative Resources for the American Adaptation of the Norwegian High-School Drama SKAM |
| title_full | Travelling Girlhood: Feminist Discourses as Narrative Resources for the American Adaptation of the Norwegian High-School Drama SKAM |
| title_fullStr | Travelling Girlhood: Feminist Discourses as Narrative Resources for the American Adaptation of the Norwegian High-School Drama SKAM |
| title_full_unstemmed | Travelling Girlhood: Feminist Discourses as Narrative Resources for the American Adaptation of the Norwegian High-School Drama SKAM |
| title_short | Travelling Girlhood: Feminist Discourses as Narrative Resources for the American Adaptation of the Norwegian High-School Drama SKAM |
| title_sort | travelling girlhood feminist discourses as narrative resources for the american adaptation of the norwegian high school drama skam |
| topic | high school drama feminism melodrama adaptation socio-political context |
| url | https://ijyal.ac.uk/articles/10.24877/IJYAL.73 |
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