The difference between novels and films is the novel as "a conceptual and discursive form, the film as a perceptual form...the filmmaker merely treats the novel as raw material and ultimately creates his own unique structure" ix. The author suggests that to assume that the film will reproduce the novel in whole is impossible: "mutations are probable the moment one goes from a given set of fluid , but relatively homogenous, conventions to another; that changes are inevitable the moment one abandons the linguistic for the visual medium...the end products of novel and film represent different aesthetic genera 5. he suggests that it is even fruitless to suggest that one is better than the other as one would not suggest the same comparing architecture with ballet 6.
Time, Sound differences from novel to film 64.
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