Academic Dialogue Explores Film and Philology Through Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent
Holt Meyer and Chris GoGwilt explore the convergence of film and philology through the lens of Joseph Conrad's 1907 work, The Secret Agent, which was published on May 2, 2007, by ARTMargins Online. Their discussion delves into literary criticism and various film adaptations, drawing on the renewed focus on philology by Edward Said and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. They analyze adaptations such as Alfred Hitchcock's 1936 film Sabotage and Christopher Hampton's 1996 television rendition, emphasizing themes of espionage and terrorism. Additionally, they refer to Conrad's 1906 letters regarding serialization in Ridgway's: A Militant Weekly. The conversation touches on "Filmphilologie," citing Klaus Kanzog's textbook, and considers the role of philology in transforming narratives into visual formats.
Key facts
- Holt Meyer and Chris GoGwilt published a dialogue on film and philology on May 2, 2007.
- The conversation focuses on Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel The Secret Agent and its film adaptations.
- Alfred Hitchcock's 1936 film Sabotage and Christopher Hampton's 1996 television version are analyzed.
- The dialogue references Edward Said's Humanism and Democratic Criticism and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's Powers of Philology.
- Meyer teaches Slavic literatures at the University of Erfurt in Germany.
- GoGwilt is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University in New York.
- The serial version of The Secret Agent appeared in Ridgway's: A Militant Weekly for God and Country in 1906.
- The conversation explores the "Slavic-English" nexus in Conrad's work and its media adaptations.
Entities
Artists
- Holt Meyer
- Chris GoGwilt
- Joseph Conrad
- Edward Said
- Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Christopher Hampton
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Patrice Chéreau
- Dan Brown
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Karl Marx
- Roman Jakobson
- Paul de Man
- Mikhail Bakhtin
- Georg Lukács
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Anthony Pages
- Gus Van Sant
- Eddie Izzard
- Robin Williams
- Gérard Depardieu
- Oskar Homolka
- Annie Ondra
- Natascha Drubek-Meyer
- Klaus Kanzog
- Martin M. Winkler
- Józef Teodor Nałęcz Konrad Korzeniowski
Institutions
- ARTMargins Online
- University of Erfurt
- Fordham University
- Stanford University
- Oxford University Press
- University of Chicago Press
- Ridgway's: A Militant Weekly for God and Country
- Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Locations
- Erfurt
- Germany
- New York
- USA
- London
- United Kingdom
- Russia
- Prague
- Czech Republic
- Vietnam
- France
- Sweden
- Scandinavia
- Munich
- Vienna
- Austria
- Brandika