Novel to Film: An Introduction to the Theory of Adaptation

by Brian McFarlane and Brian McFarlane

Book Overview

It wasn't as good as the book; this is the response to many a film adaptation, and even the starting point of many film reviews. This book offers the first systematic theoretical account of the process by which the great (and not so great) works of literature are transformed into the good,
bad (sometimes ugly), but always distinctive medium of cinema. Drawing on recent literary and film theory, Mcfarlane provides careful analysis of the theory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198711506
• ISBN13: 9780198711506
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"