"Novels on the Big Screen: An Argument to Joseph Epstien's Article, "Reel Literature" in the Wall Street Journal"

Movies are Magic. There is no way that anyone can say different. You are sucked in by them, you become a part of the characters' lives, you feel their pain and joy. Movies can do something to you to make you forget who you are, if just for a few hours. Novels can have the same affect. Again you become so involved with the characters that life as you know it comes to a halt. …

…end of story. End Notes 1 Epstein, Joseph. Reel Literature, (The Wall Street Journal. Tuesday, November 20, 2001) 2 Epstein, Joseph. Reel Literature, (The Wall Street Journal. Tuesday, November 20, 2001) 3 Ross, Harris. Film as Literature, Literature as Film. (New York Greenwood Press, 1987) pg. 17 4 Van Gelder, Peter. That's Hollywood. (New York, Harper Perennial, 1990) pg 126 5 Heller, Joseph. "On Translating Catch 22 into a Movie" (New York: Crowell, 1973) pg. 53 6 Perez, Gilberto. The Material Ghost: films and their medium. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998) pg. 387