As many regular readers here know, over the past twenty-five or so years, I’ve been regularly teaching a course in Literature and Film at National Chengchi University in which I guide the students into critical analysis of how filmmakers translate literary works into cinema. When a filmmaker decides to adapt a literary work into film, there are a number of options one can use for the actual adaptation. In this brief video, I summarize the three main revisionary ratios typically used in literary adaptation. Feel free to check out my youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/briandavidphillips for more. Be sure to click…
