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Novel To Film An Introduction to the Theory of Adaptation BRIAN McFARLANE, CLARENDON PRESS - OXFORD 1996 Preface In surveying the broader flmanaliterature fl, then focsing more na. roy on adaptation, the fst part of ths book suggest the pervasive natare ofthe interest in hs confluence of two ar-forns. Pay, dha matter of skzrching history ofthe way film has seemed vo drav towards the novel, ‘sssuming through ts own practices the narative compleniy and mimetic ‘echoes of the earler medium, unlit might be daimed that lm has ‘eplaced the novel atthe twentieth centary’s most popular nareatve form, Some writes have argued conviacngly fora continuing proces of conver ‘gence among the ars ease for dacusing novel-lmaffines others have drawn atntion of’ indeheednes to purcular Vtorian novelty; and ‘there i# no end to attempts to extablh correspondences between various aspects ofaraive and enunciation as chey are manifested inthe two med ‘Only in more recent yeas, and by no means consstendy even chen, there any atempe to examine rigorously, to conceptualize, she relations beeween, ‘he medi. Modem theoretical work from waters auch as Roland Barthes ane Christian Meez (ther emphases il o, respective, hteraute and =) has suggested new and more productive ways of corFonang some of the ‘sues False by a comparison of the two media, dnugh none has been primary concerned with aapeation "The sim of this bok isto offer and test a methodclogy fo studying the proces of ranspostion fom novel to film, with a ve nor wo evaluaing ‘ne in relation tothe other but to establishing the hud of eeletion a film ‘might bear tothe novel i is based on. In passing dis goal, Isha se up procedures fr distinguishing berween that which canbe wansferred foes ‘ne medium to another (esentialy,marative) and at which, bang de pendent on diferent signifying systems, cannot be transferred (essentially ‘nuncation).The distinction int as bold simple as ‘he previous sentence ‘aks i sound, but simple enough ro make one wonder why it has not been pursed in adaptation studies This study is eo exercse in applied theory; its original ies in the application of theoreical insights to stu ‘ons and purposes other than those that gave rise fo cher, The alm through the use oferta theoretical concept, oof an aleratve to dhe ‘ore subjective, impressionistic comparisons endemic in discussions onthe phenomenon of adaption In choosing the texts for case study, an explicit rationale fr which given In the introduction to Par I ofthis book, thave restricted myself to 'realst EE EE eee vi Pre ‘novels in English This no doubt reflects pecsonal prefecence, but the choice 15 also based on my sense hat mainstream cinema has owed much of popularity to cepresentasonal tendencies ft shares with the nineteenth ceneary English novel However, nothing in my analysis ofthe texte chowen Suggests that the methodalgy used wold be unsied to other Kinde of novel-to, sy, modemise or posemodemi fiction-—though the result yielded might exhibit erent emphases. Thave limited the scope of th book in ther ways, too, and thereby, reluctantly, marginalzed several other potentially prodctive—and cer tainly interestng—approaches to adaptation. These incade the mich

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