“In the Script It Is Written and On the Screen It’s Pictures”:

Teaching Intertextual Adaptation in Alberto Moravia and Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempts via Rosario Castellanos’s “Chess”

Abstract

The goal of this videographic moving poem is to explore teaching adaptation as an intertextual dialogism through Alberto Moravia and Jean-Luc Godard’s versions of Contempt (1954, 1963) by juxtaposing those texts with a third – Rosario Castellano’s poem “Chess.” This juxtaposition is not only a further illustration of already inherent quality of both original texts’ reflections on Homer’s The Odyssey, but also attempts to highlight and reframe a distinction facet of Godard’s adaptation: female subjectivity.