Movie Essays - Comparing the Novel and Film Version of Joy Luck Club

Comparing the Novel and Film Version of Joy Luck lodge Wayne Wangs adaptation of Amy Tans Joy Luck Club combines literary and cinematic devices by adopting the novels narrative techniques and strengthening them through image and sound. The adaptation exemplifies not a destruction or abuse of Amy Tans novel, but the emergence of a bare-ass work of art, not hindered but enhanced by the strengths of its literary precursor. Incorporating her familys consume experiences as Chinese immigrants to the United States, Amy Tan tells the story of four Chinese mothers (Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, Ying-ying St. Clair) and their American-born daughters (Jing-mei June Woo, Rose Hsu Jordan, Wave... .... Pour une lecture sociocritique de ladaptation cinematographique. Une publication de lInstitut de Sociocritique --Montpellier.1995. Drolet. Telling her stories to change the (con)text of identity.UMI disquisition Services. Michigan 1994. Aycock, Wendell. Film and literature a comparat ive approach to adaptation. Texas technical school University Press, 1988.