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@article{200122,
        author = {Dr. Sivya Vasudevan K K},
        title = {Cultural Politics of Adaptation: A Study of Textual Intervention},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {12},
        pages = {4249-4251},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=200122},
        abstract = {This research is an attempt to uncover the theory of Textual Intervention, introduced by Rob Pope, the various methods that were made use of in applying this theory to different novels; in order to adapt the novel into a motion picture. A novel maybe too lengthy, with a lot of characters or many numbers of situations or plot. The novelist or author has the freedom to think, imagine and put into words, even if it has mounted too much. But the scriptwriter is, in a sense, bound in chains, so that he has to stick on to the time limit of a movie. For this purpose, he will have to engage in different procedures like cutting up of characters, whom he thinks is unnecessary for the story, or add up certain characters together, or insert a new character, all this according to the way the movie demands out of him. He is obliged to get into the deeper levels of meaning in a text, invade it from all sides, and thus produce something new to be presented before the spectators. In the process of adaptation, screenwriters often have the tendency to stick to the original story by making a few changes to the real novel. If the scriptwriter belongs to an entirely different cultural background, and his effort is to make a movie for ‘that’ audience, then the cultural acceptance of the novel also has to be taken into account. Here comes the ‘cultural politics of the scriptwriter into play. Even if the novel is set in a Western background, the scriptwriter is forced to think from the mindset of the audience, before whom he is going to present his work.},
        keywords = {textual intervention, cultural politics, adaptation, target audience.},
        month = {May},
        }