A new approach to the study... 29 A NEW APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF TRANSLA- TION: FROM STAGE TO SCREEN1

Using the concept of translation, proposed by André Lefevere, as a bidirec-tional process, the article discusses concepts such as originality, fidelity, equivalence and interpretant to approach film adaptation as a kind of intersemiotic and cultural translation. It poses a question to faithful transla-tion and suggests that any translation, besides taking the label of cultural, can also be praised for becoming a transformation, which aims at modifying the work of art for ideological and poetological purposes