Article: Literary text, cinematic "edition": adaptation, textual authority, and the filming of Tropic of Cancer.(Critical essay)

Challenging the nearly half century's worth of scholarship on film adaptation, Thomas Leitch provocatively declares that since George Bluestone wrote his pioneering Novels into Film most critics have "practiced in a theoretical vacuum" (2003, 149). (1) Annotating the "twelve fallacies in contemporary adaptation theory," Leitch goes on to observe that most commentators accept too readily the premise that discussions of adaptation should focus on essential differences between literary and cinematic media: "Though novels and films may seem at any given moment in the history of narrative theory to have essentially distinctive properties, those properties are functions of ...

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