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‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ is a common enough saying or is it the other way around .is it the textual words that are worth a thousand .today, film adaptations are a modernized version of ‘pictures’ whereas ‘words’ are the good old strudy books. The tussle between the two genres is long and hard.Adaptation is not a new phenomenon .From Sophocles to Shakespeare, writers have based their plays on myths and legends already been told. Hence, it is an age old trend that never goes out of fashion. It has however advanced profoundly such that it has leapt from the page of a book and onto the cinema screen. John Harrington in his book “Film And/is art” Estimates that a third of all movies made are actually all film adaptations. But turning a novel into a screen play is not a matter of pulling dialogues from the pages of a book1.”the Lord of the rings, TheHarry Potter series,The Spiderman series,Twilight,the godfather,the pianist, the illusionist, Fightclub, The hours have all got one similarity and that is that all of them are adaptations from books.the questions that arise from our discourse is that what is a film adaptation?does the relationship between a novel and a film adaptation really matter? Or can the film adaptation stand on its own .What are the features required in a novel to make it adaptable to film media? Or the rather daunting fedility debate ;Are film adaptations better than books?
Linda Hutchison defines film adaptation as “repetition not replication”2 meaning that we change the original narrative so as to alter and adjust it to make it suitable, keeping in mind the requirements of the viewers and fidelity to the original text. As Francesco Casseti writes in his essay that literature and film are both “mod...

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Works Cited

http://d2buyft38glmwk.cloudfront.net/media/cms_page_media/11/FITC_Adaptation_1.pdf linda hutcheon, A Theory of adaptation, Ed. Linda Hutcheon. (New York; Rouledge,2006. Preface (pg
XVI )) Reason ; Defination of adaptation franscesco Casseti ,”adaptation and misadaptation”,a companion of literature and film 2004, pg81 http://grad.uprm.edu/testis/mendezrodriguezsharon.pdf
Wolfgang Is ofer,The Implied Reader,2006,pg763-778
Barbaera Tepa Lupack,introduction “Nineteenth Century women at the movies;adapting classic women fiction to film”pg 1-22 http://filmadaptation.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2012/08/McFarlane-Backgrounds-Issues-New-Agenda.pdf ariane Hudelet, The role of sound in-carnating jane austen www.jasna.org/persuasions/printed/number27/hudelet.pdf 8http://cassandrajade.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/10-reasons-movies-books/

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