Adaptation is a very complex, unambiguous phenomenon and has therefore a plethora of theories, typologies and definitions. Ever since the first theory which emerged in the sixties, up until the theories that were developed in the recent years, all theories had two things in common: fidelity as a method of analysis and prioritising literature over film. In the last few years these connotations of inferiority are slowly disappearing, but there is still not one comprehensive model for analysing adaptations. In this bachelor thesis I have therefore analysed novel Where'd you go, Bernadette by Maria Semple and film adaptation with the same title by director Richard Linklater as autonomous pieces of art, which I then evaluated with the help of reviews and other indicators of success.
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