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Words and Images: Australian novels into film by

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November 1984, no. 66

Words and Images: Australian novels into film 

'Brian Mcfarlane

Words and Images: Australian novels into film by

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November 1984, no. 66

Words and Images is a valuable contribution to the rapidly growing body of work on Australian film culture and a welcome addition to the relatively small collection of volumes dealing with the film-literature connection.

As McFarlane notes there is not, as yet, a ‘definitive work’ on the art of adaptation, though George Bluestone’s Novels into Film (1957) established a fairly solid base for others working in this area. McFarlane’s acknowledged indebtedness to Bluestone is most evident in the method he adopts in order to examine individual adaptations. Essentially it is one of determining and exploring changes to texts, that is, the major alterations and manipulations which take place in the process of adapting a narrative from one medium to another.

Sharon Connolly reviews 'Words and Images: Australian novels into film' by Brian Mcfarlane

Words and Images: Australian novels into film

'Brian Mcfarlane