چکیده (انگلیسی):

Critics and writers have usually treated the idea of cinema and literature from one point of view, considering
the influence of literature on cinema. This may be rational, since literature has been there far before the invention of
cinema. Thus, critics usually compare cinematographic work to literature, assessing the degree to which a movie is
faithful to a text or a novel. Many authors
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establish a forward and backward influence. She underlines that cinema has
the ability to translate deep and abstract ideas and thoughts to the screen as brilliantly as literature does. Furthermore,
Brito (2006)
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states that "In the era of interdisciplinary, nothing is healthier than trying to see the literature’s verbality
from the perspective of cinema and the movie iconicity from the perspective of literature". Film makers are inspired
by novels (D. C. Griffith, Stephen Daldry) and there is no doubt that in turn, novels tend to be increasingly inspired
by cinema. There is a mutual influence mainly justified by the chief factor they both have in common: narrative and
story-telling. Eisenstein
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relates the spontaneous childlike skill for story-telling, especially American cinema has. The
paper attempts to shed light on the dynamic and mutual relation that ties literature to cinema. Authors on the subject
tend to quote the famous statement, the writer Joseph Conrad made back in 1897, in the preface of his novel “The
nigger of the Narcissus”
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: “My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you
hear, to make you feel-it is, before all, to make you see”. His ambition as a novelist is not much different from the
ambition of any film director. Griffith declared the same idea of making people see through cinema. The perception
may not be the same but the idea of seeing is shared. Whether it is a mental or a visual perception, the reader, as well
as the viewer, is exposed to stimuli which make them perceive, interpret and assimilate things according to their own
reasoning and background. This parallelism predictsa mutual influence between the two media. The restof the paper
is, thus, organized as follows; section 1, entitled Literature and cinema: on adaptation, exposes the notion of
adaptation of novels and classics. Section2 discusses the Influence of cinema on Literature and section 3 concludes.