Novel to film : an introduction to the theory of adaptation /

Questions about the difficulties and opportunities inherent in the craft of adapting novels into film scripts and thence into films have engaged critics ever since the 1920s, but more particularly after George Bluestone's Novels into Film (1957) appeared. McFarlane is an authority in the area of "adaptation analysis," and this theoretically knowledgeable and appropriately focused volume (five case studies) is a major contribution to the literature of this subfield. The book is best suited to those with some knowledge of film studies. Its sole weakness is the relative lack of discussion about recent films. Strongly recommended to all undergraduate and research libraries collecting in the area of film or narrative theory, this volume joins such other scholarly works as Keith Cohen's Film and Fiction (CH, Feb'80), Stuart McDougal's Made into Movies (1985), Seymour Chatman's Story and Discourse (CH, Feb'79), and Patricia Santoro's Novel into Film (1996), a specialized investigation of the adoption of two Spanish novels into Spanish films. K. Tololyan Wesleyan University