Conclusion: Body Language

Abstract

The conclusion of the book re-examines the value of film-phenomenology in the evaluation and appreciation of film adaptation. I argue that before we make sense of an adaptation we must first attend to their sensual experience: their sight, their sound, their feeling, and how they are groped in embodied structures of imagination and memory. The conclusion fleshes out how an aesthetics of adaptation is inherently tied up with an ethics of adaptation, and gestures towards future work that needs to be done.