Literature in Transmutation ... can be... okay. I should certainly start with a definition of "transmutation": the action of changing into another form . This could be changing literature into a song, a play, a dance; but generally what I'm talking about is a film. My first real experience of Cinema started with a college class I took called, "Film and Literature". In it, we read a book, saw the movie, and discussed. In order to have the vocabulary with which to discuss, we also learned something of Cinema: Genre, mise en scène , stuff like that. (Of course we studied Citizen Kane , it was a class on film , frchrissake!) I don't know how much I learned about Literature , but I did learn something about Film. One of my favorite passages from a favorite book is in Stave III of Dickens' A Christmas Carol . The Ghost of Christmas Present takes Scrooge out into the town on Christmas Eve and Dickens describes the scene: (If I quoted ...
My essays on Literature in various media.