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Austen, Dickens, Tolkien: The Films That Get the Classics Right

Cal State Northridge and UCLA film instructor and critic María Elena de las Carreras made two noteworthy points we must consider: “To assess the merits of a film adaptation, one should remember that the journey from the word to the image — two different aesthetic systems — is a form of interpretation. Key issues to consider are fidelity to the literary original and the transformations that take place in this process.”

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