Transposições narrativas: analisando a série House Of Cards

Abstract

Bringing a hit back to the screen is not an easy task, any remake of television series is a complex and risky process. It is complex due to the various codes and semiotic and textual signs that identify it with its previous one, and risky, because in a market as competitive as that of the TV narrative series, a production that is less than excellent can cause loss for its producers and an unexpected cancellation, in addition to the eternal comparison between the remake and its previous one. Rewriting on this “blank slate” thus requires an extensive knowledge of narrative, textual, cinematographic and television processes, in addition to adapting to the intermodalities of new technologies. To understand these intricacies, we propose in this dissertation the case study of the TV series House of Cards of 2013, produced by the MRC in partnership with Netflix, and its transposition process between the remake and its previous version produced by the BBC in 1990. Among the versions, there are decades of evolution in the way the series are produced, and even Netflix itself appears to change this production chain. With this, we will analyze and discuss the main transformations between British productions from the early 1990s and the tv series on streaming services, based on the two versions of House of Cards.