TY - BOOK AU - Vivek Sachdeva TI - Fiction to film : Ruth Prawer Jhabvala`s The Householder and heat and dust SN - 9789386689030 U1 - 791.430973 PY - 2017/// CY - Delhi PB - Orient Blackswan KW - Film N2 - Questioning the relevance of fidelity criticism, the author closely examines the bias against adaptations. Instead of judging adaptations only for their faithfulness to the original, he argues that film adaptations of literary works must be seen as independent creative works of art, and not as derivative, and hence inferior. The relationship between cinema and the literary source can be understood in terms of inter-textuality, inter-mediality and interpretation, and within the paradigm of translation ER -