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    Translating words to images: adaptation in practice

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    2017-12-06
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    BRAC University
    Author
    Samiha, Maisha
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10361/9587
    Abstract
    A film critic asked me recently if you should read the book first and then see the movie, or see the movie and then read the book. I told him they don't have anything to do with each other. There are all kinds of movies which I would go to see that I would never, ever read the book of. Like the Jane Austen movies, or the E. M-Forster movies. There are so many books its way too late for me to read. I'm not going to read Jane Austen now, but I enjoy the movies. I try to keep up rather than go back" (qtd. in Strong ii). This thesis stands between the theories of adaptation and my attempt at adapting multiple texts of different genres into a photo story. I am going to focus on the journey of the adaptation to understand the theories better and to understand the realistic concerns while adapting. In addition, I will look at why it is difficult to film Literature - the text with the potential to be adapted to a visual form often proves to be difficult. As primary materials, I have taken texts such as – Book of Dhaka edited by Arunava Sinha and Pushpita Alam, Published in the streets of Dhaka: Collected poems by Kaiser Haq, and a song “ei শহর আমার” by Shayan Chowdhury Arnob. Through practical adaptation I will demonstrate the changes which occur in the transition between media - between text and visuals. Movies have always been inspired by novels and there is no doubt that today the opposite is trending too. They both have a narrative and the capability of storytelling and hence mutually influence each other. In literature the reader imagines the setting and the characters themselves, but cinema provides the audience the characters in flesh and a defined space. This thesis is a unique experiment to comment on the practicality of adaptations which we see in movies or discuss in our classrooms, often theoretically.
    Keywords
    Adaptation; Words; Images; Translating
     
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    This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English, 2017.
     
    Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
     
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-79).
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    Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University
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