filmstrip FILM ADAPTATION:
FROM B&W TEXT TO SILVER SCREEN
***General Elements of Film Adaptation
***Case Studies for Classroom Use
***Annotated Readings and Links
***English 279
In the novel, you start with a bag of words, and the way you put the words together has meaning.  In the movies, you get another kind of vocabulary.  You have little bits of film strips, each the equivalent of words--five words or five thousand.  But the strips are put together as individual words. 
-NORMAN MAILER

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