Immanence and intertextuality in the movie the hours, by Stephen Daldry: visual aspects

• Grant number: 13/19891-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: January 01, 2014
• End date: June 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Harkot-de-La Taille
• Grantee: Taís de Oliveira
• Supervisor: Maria Giulia Dondero
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université de Liège (ULg), Belgium
• Associated to the scholarship: 12/24233-1 - Enunciation and intertextuality in the movie The Hours, by Stephen Daldry, BP.MS

Abstract

The Hours is a movie about three women's lives. It is based on Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway (first published in 1925), and on Woolf's biography. Therefore, it characterizes a challenge to Discourse Semiotics, a theory which claims for immanent studies. As every movie, The Hours (directed by Stephen Daldry, 2002) is a multimodal object, which consists of diverse meaning-making strategies and modes. Some of the modes used are natural language (oral and written), songs and other sound effects, as well as visual content. Groupe mu is an international reference in the field of visual semiotics. We intend to benefit from this one semester experience in order to analyze the visual aspects of the movie according to their studies, unfortunately not easily available in Brazil. We also intend to establish a dialogue between their theoretical approach used in visual semiotic analysis, and the most widespread approach in Brazil, i. e., Flochian semi-symbolism. (AU)