Madness across genres

• Main Author: Tan Yiwen
• Other Authors: Angela Anne Frattarola
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45138
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Reading publications on the topic of adaptation from novels to films is akin to watching a debate. Critics like George Bluestone, Dudley Andrew, and Brian McFarlane use tropes of fidelity and originality to argue for and against one genre’s superiority over the other. Some critics argue for novelist...