Cinema, Literature and Literary Adaptation

Abstract

In general, the words Movie, Film and Cinema look synonymous but there is a very slight difference: A ‘Movie’ has some commercial connotations; ‘Film’ educational or documental and ‘Cinema’ is related to both the above including an aesthetic sense or perspective. Therefore, Cinema is one of the most fascinating artistic branches of Fine Arts which, ironically, up till now, has been a victim of the stagnant authorities of literature. According to Allen S. Weiss, ‘Cinema is the art of animation par excellence, which is why the immobility of the frozen moment is particularly disquieting’ (164). Cinema itself has been a topic of an unending discussion in recent years whether to accept it as a literary text or not, in present we witness a Word/Image Wars.