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of Intra-Media Excerpts
Zahra Hayati,PH.D.
Abstract
In literary and cinematic comparative studies, a question which springs to mind is whether the cinematic techniques or elements of cinematic style can be compared with literary techniques; in addition to narrative elements and comparison of literary tales with film scenarios? In case of feasibility of such comparison, what is to be concluded from this study? Aesthetics is a common process that can be studied in the artistic expression of two different media. To make sense and formulate tacit reasoning with the cinematic style elements shapes the pivot of comparison. For instance, conveyance of meaning or particular definitions have been known via audio signs or signs of color and light in cinematic criticism. The premise of the study is that if the possibilities of definitions are analyzed in literary texts with markers that are close to cinematic style elements; the literary text is read in another manner, and its latent meanings could be discovered or a new definition could be presented by the reader for the text. Given that the discovery of meaning or creation of meaning are under the heading of recent definitions of literary criticism, it can be said that comparative study of literary and cinematic techniques at times materializes criticism through reading the text with a special approach and upon perception of its meaning. In a number of comparative studies that have been covered by literary and cinematic critics in recent years, cinematic markers have been instrumental in study and research of literary texts. Recitation of a literary narration based on consideration of terms of presentation of narration with descriptions founded on movement, color, sound, music, decorations and …etc. at times leads to discovery of relation between the format and the content. For instance, repeated elaborations on public places by the narrator can manifest that domination of the general picture of a story at times is due to solitude of the character and his contradiction with the surrounding environment. Also, the confrontation of the moods of a sad character in closed environments to the happiness of public places in the view of the story’s character can grant a semantic structural role to contradictions of general manifestations and major manifestations and for instance state the sense of solitude of a character toward the other world.
 

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