Paper Titles in Periodical
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences
ILSHS Volume 60
Subscribe

Subscribe to our Newsletter and get informed about new publication regulary and special discounts for subscribers!

ILSHS > ILSHS Volume 60 > Thousand and One Nights and Ali Baba and Forty...
<i>Thousand and One Nights</i> and <i>Ali Baba and Forty Thieves</i>
< Back to Volume

Thousand and One Nights and Ali Baba and Forty Thieves

Full Text PDF

Abstract:

This article is going to study the adaptation of Thousand and One Nights in the movie Ali Baba and Forty Thieves directed by Arthur Lubin in 1944 through the lens of adaptation theory. The movie departs heavily from the text of Thousand and one Nights to the point that it is a whole different story and owes a great deal to the imagination of Universal Pictures. Since the movie represents the Orient it is a fertile ground for the study of the Orient in the movie. First we study the relationship of the text with the image and second we will study the images of the Orient. Of course the image the movie presents of the Orient is innocent and mild. The movie turns the text on its head in that the movie is the reverse of the text. The plot of the movie is the opposite of the text, whereas in the text it is the forty thieves who are the villains in the movie it is the other way round, the forty thieves befriend Ali Baba and grow him up and they form a resistance against the Mongols.

Info:

Periodical:
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (Volume 60)
Pages:
112-120
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.60.112
Citation:
R. R. Koohshahee and A. Anushirvani, "Thousand and One Nights and Ali Baba and Forty Thieves", International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, Vol. 60, pp. 112-120, 2015
Online since:
September 2015
Authors:
Roohollah Roozbeh Koohshahee, Alireza Anushirvani
Keywords:
Adaptation, Ali Baba and Forty Thieves, Arabian Night, Image, Text
Export:
RIS, BibTeX, Text
Distribution:
Open Access

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

References:

Burton, Richard Francis. Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Vol. 3. Burton Society of Denver, Colo., (1901).

Hensher, Jonathan. Engraving Difference: The Representation of the Oriental Other in Marillier's Illustrations to the Mille et Une Nuits and Other Contes orientaux in Le Cabinet des fées (1785-1789)., Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 31. 3 (2008).

Hutcheon, Linda. A Theory of Adaptation. New York: Routledge, (2006).

In Defence of Literary Adaptation as Cultural Production., M/C Journal 10. 2 (2007). 08 Mar. 2015 <http: /journal. media-culture. org. au/0705/01-hutcheon. php>.

Remak, Henry H. H. Comparative Literature: Its Definition and Function., Comparative Literature: Method and Perspective. Newton P. Sallknecht and Host Fenz, eds. Carbondale and Amsterdam: Southern Illinois Press, 1961. 1-57.

Sander, Jolie. Adaptation and Appropriation. New York: Routledge, (2005).

Shaheen, Jack. Reel bad Arabs: How Hollywood vilifies a people. Interlink Publishing, (2012).

Shohat, Ella. (a) Taboo memories, diasporic voices. Duke University Press, (2006).

Show More Hide
Cited By:
This article has no citations.