The Accidental Tourist On Page and On Screen: Interrogating Normative Theories About Film Adaptation

From: Literature/Film Quarterly | Date: January 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

The issue of adaptation has long been a salient one among film critics for quite practical reasons, as Dudley Andrew has observed:

The making of a film out of an earlier text is virtually as old as the machinery of cinema itself. Well over half of all commercial films have come from literary originals, though by no means all of these originals are revered or respected. (10)

While a diverse range of literary genres has spawned film adaptations, the novel has been by far the most popular written source throughout the history of the cinema. Morris Beja estimates that in the typical year, about ...

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