INTERTEXTUALITY BETWEEN LITERATURE, CINEMATOGRAPHY AND EDUCATION: THE STRATEGIC NARRATIVE PATTERN IN THE ART OF WAR AND GAME OF THRONES
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Introduction: Sun Tzu's Art of War, a book on war strategy, is considered a source of inspiration for cinematography in the field of strategic management, as numerous films inspired by its precepts are used as didactic examples in universities and business schools. This paper analyzes Sun Tzu's work and its intertextuality between literature, cinematography and education. Specifically, it investigates whether the Game of Thrones series captures the strategic axioms of the work and whether these can serve as a narrative pattern. Methodology: To do this, the content analysis of the series is combined with the literary analysis of the book to compare the war narrative of the series with Tzu's axioms. Results: The results allow us to contrast the existence of a certain strategic narrative pattern that guides the interrelation between the different fields: from literature to cinema and from cinema to consolidated theories on strategic management. Discussion: The treatment of heroism differs considerably; however, there are intertextual elements such as the need to manage human and material resources, the use of deception and spies, and the importance of elements and terrain. Conclusions: The narrative war pattern of the series inherits intertextual elements that, over the course of time, have evolved into established theories on business strategy derived from the axioms or strategic principles of The Art of War.
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