., p. 7) Films that are adaptations are generally popular and successful: according to Maurice Beja the biggest box-office successes tend to be adaptations, and he [ie Beja] also notes that since the Oscars began in 1927-28, more than three quarters of the 'Best Picture' awards have gone to films which are adaptations of novels (Beja, 1979: cited in McFarlane) . ... McFarlane suggests this is because the novel preceded film. ... There is the idea of a 'literal' translation, and the lesser adaptation, which is true to the 'spirit' of a novel. ... For McFarla...

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Motion picture writers may submit an original screen play to a motion picture producer or studio, or negotiate for the job of turning a novel or play into a screen play ((Bureau "Writing"1). ... However, noting that the best screen writers can make more than some doctors, the profession appears euphoric. ...

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In contradiction to an older form of thinking which saw the purpose of art (including popular art) as moral tract, entertainment was a more secular notion that emphasised an art devoid of serious moral or didactic purpose, and given over instead to allowing the audience a pleasurable, even escapist, engagement with the opera, play or novel. ... It is important to note that in addition to assisting the classification of film, genre also expresses the industrialized mode of production of film. ... Walter Benjamin (Nerrida Moore MAS 205 Lecture Notes - Genre 03.05.2000), in his hypothesis, the...

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Interlaced through this paper are certain notes that I deduced about its style and structure, including camera movement, music, lighting, and more. ... For instance, when Robert is sitting on the couch in his mother's home with his mother and Charles and in Charles" room as well, the long takes are used if only to represent the dreary uncomfortable boredom of their existence, which Charles deals with by consumption of tranquilizers and regurgitations of old novels. ...

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