Novelization

<div>Studies of adaptation from novels to film are common but not as widely known are adaptations with the opposite relationship. In <i>Novelization: From Film to Novel</i> Jan Baetens explores how transforming an original film or screenplay into a novel establishes a new genre and revises our understanding of narrative theory more broadly. A typical example of popular literature novelization has remained an overlooked practice in spite of the cultural and commercial importance of the genre which is as old as cinema itself.<br>   <br> <i>Novelization</i> offers a historical overview of the genre focusing on the various formats that have been adopted since the first decades of the twentieth century until today: daily and weekly novelizations cheap brochures pocket books and trade editions. It studies the specific features of the genre from various points of view: narrative style illustrations authorship and marketing. By studying novelization from a broad historical perspective Baetens reframes our understanding of adaptation and the relationship between cinema and literature. Rather than assume that cinematic adaptations either cannibalize or rejuvenate literature <i>Novelization</i> ultimately offers the opportunity to rethink the adaptation paradigm of film and literary studies.</div>