TRANSFORMASI LINTAS GENRE: DARI NOVEL KE FILM, DARI FILM KE NOVEL
This article is aimed at scrutinizing the ecranisation in the transformation across genre, that is from novels to films, and vice versa. It was found that the ecranisation process from novels to films is a process envolving the reactualisation from the written language to the audio visual language. The implication of that process is that there are some efforts to shrink, add, or alter parts of the story for various goals. Seen from the perspective of the sociology of literature, this effort could initiate the low reading motivation to the high watching motivation. In the context of aesthetic idealism, ecranisation actually exposes an author’s depression due to his lack of ability to articulate his audio visual language in representing the written language. In contrast, films has been de-ecranised into novels. An across genre transformation process is thus made, that is from the audio visual tradition, wrapped by advanced technology, to the reading-writing tradition. The latter tradition phenomena is different from the former, specifically in its perspective of the social function of literature. Unfortunately, both cannot avoid the hegemony of industrialisation. Literature and films are no more concerned with easthetic values. Rather they mingle in industrialisation, in particular the entertainment industry.