The Blue Seagull In the Novel and the Film: The Reorganisation of Genre and Ideology

The paper analyzes the young adult novel The Brotherhood of the Blue Seagull by Tone Seliškar (1936), and a feature film for young adults The Blue Seagull (1953), directed by Branko Bauer, based on Seliškar's novel. The analysis focuses on the relationship between the ideological (collectivism and solidarity) and genre elements (adventure). The transposition of the plot of the adventure novel, with an influence of ideologemes based on the 1930s collectivist ideas, in the film resulted in a structural-semantic reorganisation in the direction of emphasising genre elements and weakening the ideological ones. Bauer emphasises adventure with motif-narrative structure, enriching it with humour and playfulness at the expense of the ideological tendency.