Caleb Theodar

SRM Universtiy, English and Foreign Langauges, Faculty Member

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Dr. Caleb Theodar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Foreign Languages. His research primarily focuses on Film Adaptation and Narrative Studies. With three years of teaching experience he has a robust academic background and a passion for teaching and research. He successfully cleared the UGC NET in December 2018, demonstrating his proficiency and expertise in the field.

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Deconstructing the Gender Stereotypes of the Villainess in Dan Brown’s Inferno

Information & Media, 2024

This study intends to contribute to the existing research about modern female villains by delving... more This study intends to contribute to the existing research about modern female villains by delving deeper into the ways that represent the stereotypical pattern in film and literature. This article examines Sienna Brooks, the primary antagonist in Dan Brown’s novel Inferno and its film version. She was Bertrand Zobrist’s lover and resolved to finish his work by unleashing his Inferno virus on humanity. Vis-à-vis, articulating feminist momentum through Sienna’s antagonism to the hero highlights the boundaries of binary oppositions, challenging literary critics and questioning gender bias in literature. Female villains have empowered characters because they are often multidimensional, stronger, and more complex than female heroines, instrumental to the story’s narrative. Brown’s block characterisations make inferences about Sienna Brooks both explicitly and implicitly, replicating Sienna’s thinking style or how she thinks about the world in her mind. The conceptual portrayal of the feminine villain narrative reflects the evolving role of women in plot construction, highlighting the need for nuanced and equitable gender representation in movies.

Script to Screen: Refining the Sense of Screenwriting and Directorial Cinema in Adapting The Da Vinci Code

Information and Media, 2023

This research mainly explores the connection between Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, with the film... more This research mainly explores the connection between Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, with the filmmaker's cinematic depiction of literature. Ron Howard as an adaptation director in the Hollywood industry is evaluated in the context of his auteurism and examined his approach of repudiating a substantial portion of the Catholic secrets which dodged the predicament of fidelity, a core of conventional Film Adaptation. Disregarding the controversy, fidelity is indeed a deliberate action overtly brought by the auteurist vision resulting from screenwriting. This article explores the modern implications of screenwriting on auteurist function, aiming at how Hollywood's conception of the director's auteurism in cinema works and the film's artistic approaches from the novel to the screenplay. This study illustrates that the adaptation highlights the author's and his work's superiority yet emphasises the director's technique as inevitable during the transposition.

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Reconfiguring Cinematic Purview: The Process of Transposition on Angels and Demons

Literary Herald, 2022

This research will look at American author Dan Brown's novel Angels and Demons and Ron Howard's f... more This research will look at American author Dan Brown's novel Angels and Demons and Ron Howard's film adaptation of the same name through the lens of adaptation theory. The adaptation of Dan Brown's Angels and Demons by Ron Howard focuses on the mise-en-scene parameters in Dan Brown's writing and the pluralistic perceptions, precisely the narrative in the novel and the director's preferred frame of reference in the film. Angels and Demons revived a terrific impact on the readers through the narrative form by exposing the enigmas and motives for the obscure conceits. This paper explores the novel's process of transposition of the adaptation comprising the themes of the narrative. Following the conventions of filmmaking, directors/scriptwriters occasionally proffer reconstructed information, a radical in line with one's interpretation of the fact as contrasting with the one presented by the original author.

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Rethinking Film Adaptation Through Directors' Discourse and Auteur Theory: Approaching Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code

Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2022

This article examines the apropos of Dan Brown's novel-adaptation, The Da Vinci Code, to the dire... more This article examines the apropos of Dan Brown's novel-adaptation, The Da Vinci Code, to the director's discourses around the film adaptation of a literary work. Ron Howard's stance as an auteur is assessed to gauge him as an illustrator of American filmmaking in terms of auteur discourses and formulate that his work disavows significant portions of the Catholic conspiracies, sidestepping the subject of authenticity, which is at the forefront of contemporary literature adaptation discourses. Despite appearing to be more 'authentic,' the film falls short of the fidelity to source material that was an avowedly auteurist vision and is shown to have issues with authorship. This paper proposes the contemporary auteur influence, examining how the concept of directors' discourse functions in the Hollywood film industry and the director's stature as an auteur and the works' creative style in literary, screen adaptation and movie translation.

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Abridging Science and Religion in Angels and Demons: Absolutism of Novel in Adaptation

International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, 2022

The assertive aim of this study is to foster a conceptual adaptation model focused on two literar... more The assertive aim of this study is to foster a conceptual adaptation model focused on two literary categories: the book and the film. Regarding the study's discussion, eclecticism on film adaptation theories is applied to Dan Brown's famous mystery Angels and Demons. The impacts of the Vatican, the Catholic Church, and parish animosity, which become entwined with history and Christianity, and the layers that augment the idea of Science, will be scrutinised in the aforementioned perspectives of content and form via textual and visual descriptions on the aesthetic frame. When the reader is subtly acquainted with the dichotomy of element-meaning and religion-science among the lines of the novel, the director builds a prolific link between the visuals in the film. People typically see Science and Religion to be in conflict nowadays. However, it is also simple to find researchers and theologians who think they should coexist because they believe Science is limited in its ability to address moral issues. Some even went a step further and believed two domains could constructively express their views, as Ron Howard's adaptation of the book Angels and Demons envisions.

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Impossible Possibility of Fidelity in the Film Adaptation of Dan Brown's Inferno

by Caleb Theodar and Dr Saranya P

Bodhi International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Science, 2022

Literature studies benefit from film criticism because it enables us to approach the creations fr... more Literature studies benefit from film criticism because it enables us to approach the creations from new perspectives and search for the veiled narratives of social reality and underlying power structures. Novels have frequently served as the basis for cinematic representation ever since the advent of cinema as a literary artistic work. Inferno, a controversial Film Adaptation, is more than just an adaptation; it is a fascinating illustration of how fundamental difficulties with adaptation-intention, faithfulness, and reception-can be addressed. This article focuses on the idea of Bluestone that books and movies are independent forms of media, and changes in the adaptation are inevitable when one switches from the linguistic to the visual medium.

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PANDEMICS’ DYSTOPIAN FICTION IN REALITY: DIVULGING DAN BROWN’S INFERNO

Working Papers on Linguistics and Literature (UGC - CARE Listed Journal), 2021

This article examines Dan Brown's best-selling novel Inferno (2013) as a "Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel,... more This article examines Dan Brown's best-selling novel Inferno (2013) as a "Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel," rather than a cinematic techno-thriller: discussing pandemics in the milieu of the current global pandemic situation. The literary record enables the exploration of some of the contemporary virology's tensions, paradoxes, and inner dynamics. Dan Brown's Inferno can assist us in assessing the present by highlighting what is so
ascinating and unsettling about the possible lethal virus in a dystopian
outline. Bertrand Zobrist, a geneticist-turned-doomsday prophet accentuates the economic and political benefits to be the revolutionary masterstrokes. Brown embraces Transhumanism, which is defined as the use of technology to overcome human limitations, and the story portrays the supposition in the overpopulation theory. Through which the article brings the consciousness of the pandemic in fictional writing to reality and conspiring the reader's mind with the probability of deducing the possible motives and interlinking the historical events that happened
previously and setting it straight to the current pandemic outrage that is fatal on the naiveté mankind.
Keywords: Pandemics, Dystopia, Posthumanism, Transhumanism,
Depopulation.

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A HERMENEUTIC APPROACH TO SHERLOCK HOLMES: AN ANTITHESIS OF VIEWING NOVELS AND READING FILMS THROUGH THE ELEMENTS OF LITERARY REMEDIATION

New Archaeological & Genological Society, 2021

The literary remediation is bound up with the improvisation, and each form of reworking the adapt... more The literary remediation is bound up with the improvisation, and each form of reworking the adaptation. The tenets of cinematic improvisation revolve around rethinking and reworking the original story. Remediation of Doyle's narrative 'Sherlock Holmes' has received substantial attention for alterations. Considering the significance of reworking in modern Sherlock, it's striking that the approach has garnered scant attention from critics. If Doyle’s narrative is the process of giving life to an art, improvisation can be the emendation to our sense of vibrance to the art. It can be perceived as a revitalising force, infusing cinematic art with a heightened dimension of verisimilitude by relying on the spontaneity of performers, writers, and filmmakers. Reworking in adaptation allows films to appear more intelligible to their intended audiences, with a wider scope and coherence than the original narrative. Viewing the novel facilitates improvisation and Reading the film entices reworking: This antithetical paradigm is the objective of the work which is hermeneutically discussed in this research article.
Keywords:- Sherlock Holmes, Film adaptation, Cinematic Improvisation, Reworking, Literary Remediation.

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Deconstructing the Gender Stereotypes of the Villainess in Dan Brown’s Inferno

Information & Media, 2024