Download or read book From Literary Composition to Cinematic Adaptation A Study of Cinema through Literature from Indian Perspective written by Dipak Giri and published by AABS Publishing House, Kolkata, West Bengal, India-712121. This book was released on 2022-03-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adaptation of literary texts, be it Indian or foreign, into Indian cinema or Indian literary texts into foreign cinema, is not new for film makers, rather one can say that such adaptation is as long as film making itself. Last few decades have witnessed a spectacular rise of many such adaptations produced out of literary texts. From past to present, literary texts of many popular writers from national to global level have been adapted into Indian cinema and also Indian literary texts into foreign cinema. However, adapting a literary work into a two or three hours cinema, mostly in case of a novel is not always an easy task to a film maker as sometimes, accommodation does not come to fit in the stipulated time frame which eventually results in messing up the whole essence of the original art. Regardless of partial or whole, a cinema based on literary text has always been a great appeal to an erudite person. The present anthology is an endeavour of some select Indian cinema based on literary texts, irrespective of Indian and foreign and also some foreign cinema based on wholly Indian literary texts. Be it Indian cinema based on popular world literature or foreign cinema based on wholly Indian texts, the book is a deft study of the cinematic adaptation of literary texts from an Indian perspective.
Download or read book Adaptations written by Anugamini Rai and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book invites readers to immerse themselves in the fantastic journey of written text to the screen. It is divided into two parts, the first of which broadly focuses on cinematic adaptations based on Indian literary texts. The second section explores the adaptations of literary works from other countries. In the world of Indian cinema, the first full-length Indian feature film, Raja Harishchandra, was based on a legend mentioned in Indian holy scriptures. Since then, several literary texts have been filmed, and this process has become a popular phenomenon. The recent film by Vishal Bhardwaj, Haider, an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, has raised the expectations of lovers of this symbiotic relationship between literature and film. This book engages with issues like ‘fidelity’ and ‘intertextuality’ in the works of Tagore, Satyajit Ray, Khushwant Singh, Vishal Bhardwaj, RK Narayan, as well as other authors and directors from India and other parts of the world.
Download or read book The role of fidelity in cinematic literary adaptations written by Khushboo Prabhakar and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2020 in the subject Film Science, grade: A, University of Delhi (Sri Venkateswara College), course: English, Cinematic Studies, language: English, abstract: In this essay, I will discuss the idea of fidelity; advancing with my exposition that fidelity, certainly, can never be achieved and hence, is a popular misconception. Furthermore, I will approach the topic of literary adaptations with a post-structuralist view and will attempt to show how cinematic adaptations are sui-generis.
Download or read book Andre Bazin on Adaptation written by André Bazin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adaptation was central to André Bazin's lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature let him identify the aesthetic and sociological distinctiveness of each. More importantly, it helped him wage his campaign for a modern conception of cinema, one that owed a great deal to developments in the novel. His critical genius is on full display in this collection, where readers are introduced to the foundational concepts of the relationship between film and literary adaptation as put forth by one of the greatest film and cultural critics of the 20th century. Expertly curated and with an introduction by celebrated film scholar Dudley Andrew, the book begins with a selection of essays that show Bazin's film theory in action, followed by reviews of films adapted from renowned novelists of the day (Conrad, Hemingway, Steinbeck; Colette, Sagan, Duras; and more) as well as classic novels of the 19th century (Bronte, Melville, Tolstoy; Balzac, Hugo, Zola; Stendhal and more). Taken together, this volume will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in literary adaptation, authorship, classical film theory, French film history, and André Bazin's criticism alike. As a bonus, 250 years of French fiction is put in play as Bazin assesses adaptation after adaptation to determine what is at stake for culture, for literature and especially for cinema"--
Download or read book Film and Literature written by Wendell M. Aycock and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offered here is a consideration of films and the dramas or books from which they derive as seen through the eyes of literary critics, a veteran Hollywood producer, and the screenwriters themselves.
Download or read book A Companion to Literature and Film written by Robert Stam and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Literature in Film provides state-of-the-art research on world literature, film, and the complex theoretical relationship between them. 25 essays by international experts cover the most important topics in the study of literature and film adaptations. Covers a wide variety of topics, including cultural, thematic, theoretical, and genre issues Discusses film adaptations from the birth of cinema to the present day Explores a diverse range of titles and genres, including film noir, biblical epics, and Italian and Chinese cinema
Download or read book Indian Literature and Popular Cinema written by Heidi R.M. Pauwels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-17 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the popular cinema of North India ("Bollywood") and how it recasts literary classics. It addresses questions about the interface of film and literature, such as how Bollywood movies rework literary themes, offer different (broader or narrower) interpretations, shift plots, stories, and characters to accommodate the medium and the economics of the genre, sometimes even changing the way literature is read. This book addresses the socio-political implications of popular reinterpretations of "elite culture", exploring gender issues and the perceived "sexism" of the North Indian popular film and how that plays out when literature is reworked into film. Written by an international group of experts on Indian literature and film, the chapters in this book focus on these central questions, but also cover a wide range of literary works that have been adapted in film. Each part of the book discusses how a particular genre of literature has been "recast" into film. The individual chapters focus on comparisons and close studies of individual films or film songs inspired by "classics" of literature. The book will be of interest to those studying Indian film and literature and South Asian popular culture more generally.
Download or read book Literature Through Film written by Robert Stam and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-10-22 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and accessible textbook, written by an expert in film studies, provides a fascinating introduction to the process and art of literature-to-film adaptations. Provides a lively, rigorous, and clearly written account of key moments in the history of the novel from Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe up to Lolita and One Hundred Years of Solitude Includes diversity of topics and titles, such as Fielding, Nabokov, and Cervantes in adaptations by Welles, Kubrick, and the French New Wave Emphasizes both the literary texts themselves and their varied transtextual film adaptations Examines numerous literary trends – from the self-conscious novel to magic realism – before exploring the cinematic impact of the movement Reinvigorates the field of adaptation studies by examining it through the grid of contemporary theory Brings novels and film adaptations into the age of multiculturalism, postcoloniality, and the Internet by reflecting on their contemporary relevance.
Download or read book Telling and Re telling Stories written by Paula Baldwin Lind and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between literature and film? What is meant when speaking about “adapting” a literary work to the screen? Is it possible to adapt? And if so, how? Are there films that have “improved” their literary sources? Is adaptation a “translation” or, rather, a “re-interpretation”? What is the impact of adapting literary classics to a modern context? This collection of articles offers a comprehensive and authoritative study of literary adaptation to film which addresses these and other unresolved questions in the field of Literary Adaptation Studies. Within five different sections, the volume’s international team of contributors offers valuable study cases, suggesting both the continuity and variety of adaptation theories. The first section traces recurring theoretical issues regarding the problems and challenges related to the adaptation of literary works to the particular nature and dynamics of cinema. The second and third parts focus on the specific problems and technical challenges of adapting theatre and narrative works to film and TV series respectively. The fourth section includes the study of Latin American authors whose works have been adapted to the screen. The fifth and final part of the book deals with the structures and devices that film directors use in order to tell stories. The art of telling and re-telling stories, which originated in ancient times, is present throughout this publication, giving shape to the discussion. Adaptations of stories are present everywhere in today’s world, and their development is well told and re-told in this volume, which will definitely interest academics and researchers working in literature and film comparative studies, novelists, screenwriters, film makers, dramatists, theatre directors, postgraduate students, and those researching on topics related to the philosophy of art and aesthetics.
Download or read book Film Adaptation and Its Discontents written by Thomas Leitch and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The range of films studied, from silent Shakespeare to Sherlock Holmes to The Lord of the Rings, is as broad as the problems that come under review.
Download or read book Bollywood Retakes written by Blair Orfall and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As popular Hindi cinema reinvents itself under a global gaze, a stigma of illegitimacy persists. This stigma derives from popular Hindi cinema's long history of unacknowledged adaptation of various source texts, which is usually censured and dismissed, with little or no analysis, by critics. The Encyclopedia of Hindi Cinema models this paradox: 'A large majority of Hindi films ape Hollywood in a manner singularly devoid of any kind of inspiration ... Interestingly, none of these films is a carbon copy of the original.' Bollywood Retakes resists the typical discourse that assumes popular Hindi cinema's proclivity for adaptation reveals a creative lack based on financial concerns. Instead, this dissertation argues that the interwoven textual, thematic and copyright relationships of adaptations dramatize new anxieties about Indian cinema's origins and legitimacy under the global gaze--anxieties stemming from concerns about cultural contamination and the blurred line of deference or defiance vis-à-vis multinational interests. Beginning with a Hindi adaptation of Shakespeare, a touchstone for cinematic adaptation studies and Indian cinema, the dissertation argues that Maqbool (2003), an acknowledged adaptation of Macbeth, incorporates a pregnant Lady Macbeth who embodies the anxiety of influence. The pregnancy, itself borrowed from Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood (1957), dramatizes the core tragedy of the childless couple while announcing a new generation of Indian cinema with its attendant concerns of biological, directorial, and international legitimacy. Whereas Maqbool advertises its source text, the most misconstrued adaptation in Indian cinema is the unacknowledged Hollywood to Bollywood adaptation, often considered cannibalistic. To address the ideological structure of the Hollywood template in the new Bollywood film, the dissertation provides case studies of two popular Hindi films, Shakti: The Power (2002), an adaptation of Not Without My Daughter (1991), and Phir Milenge (2004), an adaptation of Philadelphia (1993); together these films demonstrate how new claims about contemporary Indian citizenship are announced through the genre of the unacknowledged adaptation. Reversing the Hollywood-to-Bollywood discourse, the controversial Slumdog Millionaire (2008), an adaptation of several Indian inter-texts, illustrates the stakes of adaptation for Indian cinema: the right of self-representation and international recognition."--Abstract.
Download or read book Narratives of Indian Cinema written by Manju Jain and published by Primus Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by subject specialists examines the politics of violence, communalism, and terrorism as negotiated in cinema; the representations of identitarian politics; and the complex ideological underpinnings of literary adaptations.
Download or read book Analyzing Literature to Film Adaptations written by Mary H. Snyder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of scholarly treatments for film adaptation are put forth by experts on film and film analysis, thus with the focus being on film. Analyzing Literature-to-Film Adaptations looks at film adaptation from a fresh perspective, that of writer or creator of literary fiction. In her book, Snyder explores both literature and film as separate entities, detailing the analytical process of interpreting novels and short stories, as well as films. She then introduces a means to analyzing literature-to-film adaptations, drawing from the concept of intertextual comparison. Snyder writes not only from the perspective of a fiction writer but also as an instructor of writing, literature, and film adaptation. She employs the use of specific film adaptations (Frankenstein, Children of Men, Away from Her) to show the analytical process put into practice. Her approach to film adaptation is designed for students just beginning their academic journey but also for those students well on their way. The book also is written for high school and college instructors who teach film adaptations in the classroom.
Download or read book Literature into Film written by Linda Costanzo Cahir and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most people, film adaptation of literature can be summed up in one sentence: "The movie wasn't as good as the book." This volume undertakes to show the reader that not only is this evaluation not always true but sometimes it is intrinsically unfair. Movies based on literary works, while often billed as adaptations, are more correctly termed translations. A director and his actors translate the story from the written page into a visual presentation. Depending on the form of the original text and the chosen method of translation, certain inherent difficulties and pitfalls are associated with this change of medium. So often our reception of a book-based movie has more to do with our expectations and reading of the literature than with the job that the movie production did or did not do. Avoiding these biases and fairly evaluating any particular literary-based film takes an awareness of certain factors. Written with a formalistic rather than historical approach, this work presents a comprehensive guide to literature-based films, establishing a contextual and theoretical basis to help the reader understand the relationships between such movies and the original texts as well as the reader's own individual responses to these productions. To this end, it focuses on recognizing and appreciating the inherent difficulties encountered when basing a film on a literary work, be it a novel, novella, play or short story. Individual chapters deal with the specific issues and difficulties raised by each of these genres, providing an overview backed up by case studies of specific film translations. Films and literary works receiving this treatment include The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Lady Windemere's Fan by Oscar Wilde and Shakespeare's Henry V. Interspersed throughout the text are suggestions for activities the film student or buff can use to enhance his or her appreciation and understanding of the films. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Download or read book Books to Film written by Jim Craddock and published by Books to Film. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books to Film will cover literary adaptations in four main categories: Classic Literature; Contemporary bestsellers and popular fiction; nonfiction, encompassing biography, true crime, history, and memoirs; and childrenâ??s and young adult literature. Sidebars will highlight people, such as authors, film directors, screenwriters, actors, producers, who are particularly identified with adaptation or a particular work.
Download or read book Industry 5 0 and Paradigm Shift Emerging Challenges written by Namit Gupta and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industry 5.0 is the successor of the 'Industry 4.0' concept which employed high technology in the manufacturing industry. Industry 5.0 is a new idea that adds a human touch to the work of robots and smart machines. The basic idea of humans and machines working together is to increase efficiency and effectivity, like the 'Internet of things' (loT). It aims to merge the increasing cognitive computing abilities of the robots with the intelligence and resourcefulness of the humans. The progress of Industry 5.0 is inevitable. As the technology grows more each day, we find ways to make our work simpler. The development of such technologies to make the world more efficient requires its manufacturers, i.e., humans who collaborate with these machines and technologies. Humans are indispensable resources, as what a machine can do is limited. And with all these efficiencies we have come so far, there is no path leading us back. With adoption of new concepts comes a paradigm shift as development continues and we move from Industry 4.0 which speaks of the "future of production," its primary purpose continues to be achieving seamless connectivity between machines and IT systems for higher productivity and efficiencies across the value chain. Overall, it focuses mainly on traditional financial and operational KPIs. Whereas Industry 5.0 gives a human touch to the concept of 4.0 keeping in mind the well-being of the environment and society, making the machines and humans work together on a path of 'Green Future'. Industry 5.0 has the balance of both humans and technologies which benefits the ecosystem, with discovery of new energy sources and renewable resources, helping in a sustainable working environment. It can be used to reduce harmful residue caused due to manufacturing processes and recycle rare materials. Taking this theme, the multidisciplinary congress on "Industry 5.0 and Paradigm Shift: Emerging Challenges" will highlight research challenges and open issues that should be further developed to realize Industry 5.0.
Download or read book Gender Relations and Cultural Ideology in Indian Cinema written by Indubala Singh and published by Deep and Deep Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at Indian films based on fiction through gender lens and takes into account cultural context for the studying of the films as a work of art composed on converging systems of signs, verbal as well as non verbal.
