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1 Abstract As an African American writer and activist, Alice Walker explores themes related to the Black community and culture. In The Color Purple, she focuses on Black women and the struggles they had experienced in the rural American South between 1900s-1940s. Walker addresses issues such as domestic violence or oppression established by patriarchy, and through the female characters also elaborates on female identity, sexuality, and spiritual freedom. In 1985, The Color Purple was adapted into a film of the same name by Steven Spielberg. This BA thesis first introduces Alice Walker and her work in the historical and literary context, and then provides a general introduction to the concept of film adaptation. This chapter briefly clarifies the term and then comments on different types of film adaptation, the process of its creation, and the importance of the adaptation's reception from the public, for that is considered to be a crucial and final part of the overall process. Lastly, it discusses the transition from a novel to a film specifically, which leads the reader to the core of this treatise: the detailed analysis of Walker's novel and Spielberg's interpretation of the story. The BA thesis studies the differences between the two works. It examines the key discrepancies in the depiction of characters,... |
