![]() ![]() The novel can be classified as a detective story as it seems to follow the pattern of a classical detective story, and it shows lots of features that could be read as a prose source for a movie. In this paper, I want to examine theoretically what was a sudden idea, an intuitive feeling in the beginning, and connect film science with literary analysis. ’ When I read Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn, that was exactly what occurred to me. This book is really (now comes the term) filmreif. One would – informally – say: ‘This is such a good story. The novel has probably had a strong impact on their perception of the plot, and the language seems to have generated long-lasting images in their minds. Having read a novel, there is a quite well-fitting German term that people use when they have liked the story and its characters. We want to see if our imagination fits the ‘real’ pictures on-screen. Sometimes when we read a book and our imagination is roused by the words we read, we cannot wait for this story being told by a film. ![]() Introduction: Jonathan Lethem’s Detective Story Motherless Brooklyn as a Pretext for a Hollywood Movie I hereby confirm that this paper was written by myself and that all direct and indirect quotations from other sources have been documented appropriately. Film and Novel as Texts: Medial Differences ![]() Features: The detective, the murder, a riddle and discoveryġ. ![]() ![]()
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