All but one down, one to go

As of today, my to-do list had 108 school-related tasks completed, two open. I just reached 20 pages on the adaptation paper, after throwing in intertextualism and “literature as resourse” and “film as critical reading” and the auteur theory and populism and statistics on the Indian film industry and descriptions and analysis of Bollywood [...]

Adaptation - Rexamining Fidelity Criticism

Most film criticism dealing with adaptations of books focuses on how closely the film sticks to the book. In other words, an adaptation is often judged based on whether or not the film accurately recreates its source. And of course, many films do try to be faithful to their sources, and fidelity criticism [...]

Toward a (non)theory of (non)adaptation

I wrote out a bunch of this last night, but then lost it just before I posted. Grr Arrgh. So this is a recreation, and I’m not sure I got it all. Anyway, these are questions that are bouncing around in my head as I work on a paper about Bride and [...]