Descrição
This paper aims at presenting and discussing the first findings of aresearch project that employs Itamar Even-Zohar’s Polysystem Theory (1978; 2010) inmapping some of the contributions cinema industry has brought to the Brazilian literarysystem. Focusing on the editorial boom and renewal of J. R. R. Tolkien’s trilogy TheLord of the Rings (1954) brought about by Peter Jackson’s homonymous film versions(2001-2003), the research intends to demonstrate that adaptations of literary works tothe screen may renew and enrich the original text, rearrange its role and positionwithin both source and target literary systems by introducing it to new audiences,adapting it to new readers, performing that which Walter Benjamin (2000) conceived astranslation’s major role: to grant the original text “afterlife”.
