Literature Into Film Film Into Literature. Case Studies in American Literature and Film

Literature Into Film Film Into Literature. Case Studies in American Literature and Film - Ileana Jitareu Chiru    The present study Literature into Film/Film into Literature. Case Studies in American Literature and Film includes ample analysis of five dyads novel-film, film-novel, history-film. Framed in appropriate critical paradigms, the focus of research is the adaptation of three novels on screen: The Godfather (Mario Puzo, 1969; Francis Ford Coppola, 1974), One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey, 1962; Milos Forman, 1975), The Color Purple (Alice Walker, 1982; Steven Spielberg, 1985). The analytical approach involves identifying levels of transition from text to film from a narratological and semiotic perspective. The films are simultaneously placed under the critical lenses of genre and ideology (The Godfather), the cine-semiotic reshaping from an allegorical text to a realistic film (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest) or representation of Afro-American feminism (The Color Pu