This volume of prose selections is intended for use in high school or university-level courses that compare and contrast the literary and cinematic arts.
Each of the selections has served as the basis for a film, either directly or obliquely. While the resulting screenplay often varies considerably from its literary source, the similarities and differences between the two art forms offer fascinating subjects for scrutiny and study. In this approach, an examination of the literature casts light on the meanings in the film, and the exploration of the film can illuminate the full value of the literature. Through such analytical inspection, new insights and perceptions about the literary source and its film version often result.
