The common element in both book and film versions of the story is the use of satire, making fun of the fairytale genre. ... In the novel, the "omission" of pages of information describing thoroughly irrelevant things mocks the extensive use of description and tangents in stories, but ironically this information in itself is omitted for the film. ... Where in a book the imagination provides the information that is left out, each responder creating their own image of each setting, in a movie it is essential to design each individual element to create the right impression. ... Indeed, combined wi...

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This outgrowth of post-graduate English literature studies Became an industry in itself (certainly with respect to the book trade, which spawned a halcyon period of auteur-oriented film titles in the early '70s) and was undoubtedly a boon to the programmers of the revival houses that flourished through the 1970s. ... Based on the writings of European academics such as Jacques Lazan, Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, and others, semiotics sought to investigate the quantum kernels of any artistic effort, reducing aesthetic information to a language of interrelated signs and signifiers. ... Rhy...

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