Most books on film adaptation—the relation between films and their literary sources—focus on a series of close one-to-one comparisons between specific films

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First systematic theoretical study of the process in which works of literature are transformed into the medium of cinema. Draws on recent literary and cinema th

"Guerric DeBona's new book that makes a powerful case that film adaptiations are shaped as much by contextual forces as by their literary forbears. Once it is a