APOCALYPSE NOW AND HEART OF DARKNESS: THE CLASH BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE SOCIETY

Authors

  • Lucas Calil Guimarães Silva UFF – Universidade Federal Fluminense.
  • Renata Ciampone Mancini UFF – Universidade Federal Fluminense

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21709/casa.v12i1.7124

Keywords:

Cinema, Semiotics, Literary adaptations.

Abstract

Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979), a film based on the romance Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, tackles the conflict between individual versus society in the Vietnam War context, between the 60s and 70s of the 20th century. This work aims to convey, following a semiotics approach, the director’s strategies to make this opposition explicit in the language of cinema at the same time that preserves the thematic fidelity in relation to the questions raised in the book about the British Imperialism of the 19th century in Africa.

Author Biography

Renata Ciampone Mancini, UFF – Universidade Federal Fluminense

Docente da UFF – Universidade Federal Fluminense. 
Casa: Cadernos de Semiótica Aplicada, v.12, n.1 (2014)

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Published

21/07/2014

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2014)

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