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"Novels on the Big Screen: An Argument to Joseph Epstien's Article, "Reel Literature" in the Wall Street Journal"

Date Submitted: 08/22/2003 15:04:44
Length: 4 pages (1148 words)
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Movies are Magic. There is no way that anyone can say different. You are sucked in by them, you become a part of the characters' lives, you feel their pain and joy. Movies can do something to you to make you forget who you are, if just for a few hours. Novels can have the same affect. Again you become so involved with the characters that life as you know it comes to a halt. …

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…end of story. End Notes 1 Epstein, Joseph. Reel Literature, (The Wall Street Journal. Tuesday, November 20, 2001) 2 Epstein, Joseph. Reel Literature, (The Wall Street Journal. Tuesday, November 20, 2001) 3 Ross, Harris. Film as Literature, Literature as Film. (New York Greenwood Press, 1987) pg. 17 4 Van Gelder, Peter. That's Hollywood. (New York, Harper Perennial, 1990) pg 126 5 Heller, Joseph. "On Translating Catch 22 into a Movie" (New York: Crowell, 1973) pg. 53 6 Perez, Gilberto. The Material Ghost: films and their medium. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998) pg. 387

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