Under The Dome, From Paper to Screen

Abstract

his dissertation is an analysis of film adaptation. The main discussion consists of two parts. The first part focuses on the theoretical research, where it will be contributed to defining modernism and sciences in general and their characteristics, leading to the characterization and themes conveyed in science fiction, in the final part, there is the most important element in this research, film adaptation. The second part examines in which film adaptation is reviewed as a process done and the relationship between the author and the executive producers of the show and the novel. Cinema has become the most popular and appreciated art of narration in the contemporary period, as it is very similar to literature, however adding the audio-visual aspect that makes all its allure. Transforming a written text to a visual moving motion makes the whole process different and new, during the process there can be some changes and some other elements that the executive producers stick to it, which is the dome. The basic element that the process of film adaptation is based on is the amazing and unique Under the Dome.