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Kirsten Law
Virginia Woolf and Film Adaptation
Contact Kirsten.A.Law@student.shu.ac.uk
Discipline/professional area
Film studies
Outline of research project
I am investigating the study of film adaptation with a particular focus on the adaptations of Virginia Woolf, including Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando and The Hours. My thesis discusses and examines feminism's employment of stylistic mimesis as a means of subverting dominant, phallocentric discourses. This is developed through a close reading of Luce Irigaray's reworking of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis. I then analyse the way in which Woolf adopts a similar strategy in her subversion of dominant forms of narrative conventions. I apply this strategy to my own subversive examination of film adaptation studies as I examine the ways in which adaptations of Woolf attempt to transfer her rhetoric to film.
Key references
- Cardwell, Sarah Adaptation Revisited, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002.
- Irigaray, Luce (trans. G. Gill) Speculum of the Other Woman, Cornell University Press, New York, 1985
- Scott, Bonnie Kime Refiguring Modernism: Volumes 1 and 2, Indiana University Press, Indiana, 1995
- Woolf, Virginia 'Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown' (1924), 'Modern Fiction' (1925), Jacob's Room (1922), Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928)
Director of studies
Professor Tom Ryall
Supervisors
Dr Catherine Constable (c.a.constable@shu.ac.uk)
Dr Suzanne Speidel (S.Speidel@shu.ac.uk)
