Literature on Screen: The Asian graphic novels and films adaptation

Abstract

Within the last decades, there has been a burgeoning field of film studies, especially the topic of study is the adaption of literary classics to film. One medium that combines affordances of both visuals and text - a graphic novel. A book with comic book content is a graphic novel. The phrase "graphic novel" is used generically to apply to fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized works, despite the fact that the word "novel" often refers to lengthy fictional works.1 In general, Will Eisner's A Contract with God, which was finally released in 1978, contributed to the phrase "graphic novel" becoming widely used. Eisner's book and Art Spiegelman's Maus were particularly significant in this regard. When it comes to Asian graphic novels, in Japan, it means Japanese manga and in Taiwan, China, it refers to picture books. In this paper, I am going to explore the different presentations of imagery and relationships between graphic novel and its adapted film.