Film and Literature: Oppositions, Transitions, Adaptations
Keywords:
literature and film, literary texts, film adaptationsAbstract
This paper presents an overview of various theoretical approaches to the relationship between film and literature, particularly in the context of film adaptation. It highlights certain binary oppositions deriving from attempts to define the specific features of literature and film as sign systems; that is, the dichotomy between word and image, subjective and objective representation, and the modes of telling versus showing. In addition, it reviews some studies that build on the specific features of these media to address the interactions between film and literature, such as the transition of the narrative structures and cultural function of the nineteenth-century novel into film, the transformation of literary narratives under the new representation introduced by cinematic fragmentation, and conceptualization of films by means of linguistic and literary terminology (e.g., film language, caméra-stylo, etc.). It treats the problem of a film’s fidelity to its literary source and the accompanying tendency to privilege literature and its originality against the mass popularity of cinema. In the last section, it highlights the latest directions in film-adaptation studies – in particular, the appeals to incorporate this field into the wider context of transtextual adaptations at the interdisciplinary crossroads of literary, film, and cultural studies.References
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