The Lives of Remarkable People, Russian Studies in Literature, 49:2, 87-95īurnett, M.T. A Long way Home.New York: Prnguin Publishers.īulkina, I. US-China Education Review, 5(7), 58-61.īrierley, S. The differences between novels and films. Whose lives are they anyway? The biopic as contemporary film genre.īo, B. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.īingham, D. (2014) Projected Art History: Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing ofĪmerican Art. Telling our stories: Continuities and divergences in Black autobiographies.īerger, D. The study concludes that biopic, as a representative of its genre and like other genres, has specific conventions and the movie Lion (2016) successfully qualifies for biopic as a genre.Īlabi, A. The present study also addresses Stam’s (2000) criticism on strict fidelity to discuss medium specificity approach. The analysis of the study reveals that the movie qualifies for Giannetti’s (2008) concept of faithful adaptation as well as Wagner’s (1975) two modes of adaptation i.e. At the age of five, unfortunate Saroo Brierley got lost in a local train in India which caused him to face many dreadful realities of life in Calcutta before being formally adopted by an Australian couple through an orphanage. The book and the movie depict the incredible life history of Saroo Brierley, a five years old child, and now a young man, who used modern technology “Google Earth” to rediscover himself including childhood life and hometown in India. The present study sets out to analyse a biopic Lion (2016) which is adapted from Saroo Brierley ‘s bestselling book A Long Way Home (2013).
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