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Film Versions of Anne of Avonlea and Anne of Green Gables

In ten pages the transition from the printed page unto the visual silver screen is examined in a consideration of these novels tur...

Film Adaptation vs. Text of Silas Marner by George Eliot

with Satan. Eliot is quick to establish the basic goodness of Silas Marner through basic details. His face was "trusting and sim...

Novel and Cinematic Versions of A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

In four pages the novel and its film adaptation are thematically compared in terms of cinematic changes that were made. Six sourc...

Group Process and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

In five pages the novel and film versions of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest are featured in this discussion of the group process,...

Nature in Deliverance by James Dickey

In six pages this essay examines how both the novel and the film depict nature as a way of showcasing the author's evil concept. ...

Film and Book Version Analysis of 'The Godfather'

outsiders who entered their orbit (such as Michaels WASP wife, Kay) represented the audience and their fascination and revulsion o...

Book and Film Versions of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath

In six pages this paper emphasizes class consciousness in a discussion of how class is portrayed during the Great Depression in St...

Fear Levels in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

of my being" (Frankenstein). As with any newborn, his sensory impressions of the world are at first indistinct. He began to attemp...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

the reader imagines and sees through the eyes of the character is a world with shocking parallels to modern humanitys own question...

Silence of the Lambs Novel and Cinematic Versions

remained amazingly faithful to the book, in his commitment to retaining its essence, there were some changes that needed to be mad...

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Film Analysis

by Heinrich Boll, on which the screenplay was based (Anonymous, 2001). Katharina Blum (played by Angela Winkler) is an innocent,...

Comparative Thematic Analysis of Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness

he was supposed to have picked up at this station has broken down, so he is delayed. He tries to make himself busy and during this...

Movie Verses Novel in Depictions of Fellowship of the Ring

any film based on a novel, there is much that is left out. And, interestingly enough, if it were up to anyone but Peter Jackson, t...

Films Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein and Science

about cloning, for example, is that one will create a monster like what appears in the Frankenstein films. And while the monster i...

Philip Marlowe and The Long Goodbye

toward the Rolls Royce. He probably thought it was corny" (Chandler, 1992, p. 4). We learn a lot about Marlowe from what he says...

The Secret History by Donna Tartt, Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Education

who do not know how to live life and are brainwashed by books and academia" (Chan). In essence, the professor understands the more...

Comparative Analysis of Silence of the Lambs Book and Movie

and Banks 109). Theatrically trained and critically acclaimed screenwriter Ted Tally impressively translated Harriss text onto ce...

1920 and 1992 Cinematic Adaptations of James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans

was shot on location at Big Bear Lake and Yosemite Valley in California (Magills-1920). In an interview with film historian Kevin ...

Trauma and its Lasting Life Effects

has trouble controlling his body and does not begin to feel some returning sense of normality until he reaches the Acura dealershi...

Black Rain Review and Criticism

yet sympathetic short stories about ordinary people in Japanese life. Black Rain is considered a novel distinct from all other tex...

Transferring Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights to the Silver Screen

critics. The other reason that books seldom translate well to film is that in a screenplay all the senses are limited to the visu...

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice and Homoeroticism

It all started when Lestat, a very old vampire, gives Louis the choice to either die or have eternal life as a vampire (Berardinel...

Michael Ondaatje's The Skin of the Lion and the Film Monsoon Wedding in Terms of Ethnicity and Gender Representation

7). In the third section of the novel, Patrick, the boy from the first section is now twenty-one years old and arrives in Toronto....

J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Cultural Products, and Religion

hairy feet. As this suggests, they are humble beings, not heroes. Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who is uncle to Frodo Baggins, entrusts ...

Sibling Relationship of Raymond and Charlie Babbitt in Rain Man

Charlie Babbitt The character of Charlie Babbitt is established early in Fleischers novel and Bass and Morrows screenplay of the ...

Comparing Apuleius' Golden Ass to Raiders of the Lost Ark

also his lover, that the antidote is to eat some roses. However, when he goes out into the garden to do so, he is beaten by the ga...

The French Lieutenant's Woman

fact is not as clear in the film. The film is allowed the benefit of constant juxtapositions out of place and time. The book depen...

Film and Book Comparison/Maltese Falcon

primarily morals or values, but rather self-interest and the realization that he would have allowed the attraction he feels for th...

The Cider House Rules/John Irving

are complex works, as this narrative relates strongly held beliefs on the controversial issue of abortion. While the student resea...

Propaganda in China

government (or any government, really), Communist China has to create the illusion that the system is the best for its people. Thi...