Disney lê Dickens: Oliver & Company parodia Oliver Twist

Abstract

An adaptation may be defined as “a repetition without replication” (HUTCHEON, 2011, p. 7) of a certain text, becoming intersemiotic transpositions between systems of distinct signs, in this case a change of media, as it is the case of this work. A parody, in turn, is a kind of adaptation, characterized by a critical ironic distance (HUTCHEON, 2000, p. 37). Questions like a priority on fidelity of adaptations, hierarchy of genres and media, that valorizes the written texts over the audiovisual ones, and a constant association of parody as a genre with a depreciation of the source text, arising misinterpretations for its definition make the study and discussion of texts necessary. There is among these texts a great amount of highly criative work that allows the continuity and preservation of the texts, that calls new public’s attention. Thus, this present work has the objective of both analysing which elements of the animation Oliver & Company (1988) contribute for the construction of parody, justifying its classification as such, and tracing a comparison between the animation and Charles Dickens’s classic novel, Oliver Twist (1838).