Film adaptation as a new medium in understanding literature

Abstract

A literary work, conventionally, can exist in an oral or writing form that requires its readers to listen and read in order to comprehend. This conventional concept of enjoying literary works has resulted in the waning interest to be involved in literature among the younger generation. It is deemed pivotal that adaptations of literature into films may attract the attention of this generation in order to understand a literary work. Based on this notion, this study aims at bringing to the fore the importance of film adaptation so as to comprehend the adaptation concept, analyse film adaptation in Malaysia and evaluate its significance to whom it may concern. It is discovered preliminarily, in this study that the adaptation process is essential in the efforts to enhance understanding of literary works among readers. It is hoped that this study may open up more discussions on the film adaptation and further embrace its impacts on society as film is one of the powerful technological tools that notably characterises the 4.0 Industrial Revolution (4IR).