Cinema, Poetry, and Poetics: Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man

This research attempts to explore Jim Jarmusch's movie, Dead Man (1995), to address the integration of poetry and film as poetics of the movie, where the English poet, William Blake, is used as a main motif featuring his poetry and themes. The other symbolic poetic element in the film is its Neo-Western genre, which overturns the myth of the American frontier foundation built by white people who took away both the land and culture of Native Americans. Jarmusch inverted the Western style of John Ford, an icon of the genre and renowned as &quota poet of the West.&quot In particular, Jarmusch strongly criticized the way classic Westerns treated Native Americans. In Dead Man, a Native American named Nobody is a wise and witty visionary with deep knowledge of the real poet William Blake. Nobody plays a crucial role in leading the spiritual transcendence of the main character(another William Blake) and guiding him back to the other world from where the dead man came. Jarmusch's film poetics expand the perspectives of adaptation discourse.