After reading Chatmans essay, What Films Can Do that Novels After reading Chatmans essay, What Films Can Do that Novels Cannot, and Vice Versa, reading al-Aswanys The Yacoubian Building, and watching the film, answer the following question:Do you agree with Chatmans theory that films present while novels assert works in the case of this novel and its adaptation? Briefly state why or why not. .After reading Hanadi al-Sammans essay, Out of the Closet, what do you make of the depiction of male homosexuality in The Yacoubian Building? Do you agree that the affair between Hamid and Abd Rabbuh in the film represents a power dialectic? How so? If you were to adapt al-Aswanys The Yacoubian Building into film, what elements (characterization/ events/ places) of this novelistic drama would you choose to highlight in your film and what would you understate?In your opinion, which film character was the truest and most faithful to the script of the novel? Tell us why!History Ancient History ARAB 325
