2012/02/21 by Charles B. Harris · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Adaptation (eye) #Aesthetics #Art #Artificial intelligence #Cinema and Media Studies #Computer science #Contemporary Literature and Criticism #Dead end #End-to-end principle #History #Law #Literature #Narrative Theory and Analysis #Neuroscience #Object (grammar) #Political science #Politics #Psychology #Social psychology
paper · doi:10.1080/00111619.2012.637377
openalex publication_date 2012/02/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
End of the Road, the 1970 film adaptation of John Barth's 1958 novel The End of the Road, offers an object lesson in the perils of transferring a subjective verbal medium, literary fiction, into an objective visual medium, film. End of the Road is finally unsuccessful because of its often puzzling departures from Barth's novel, its inability to seamlessly graft the filmmakers's explicit political agenda onto a novel whose politics are, at best, implicit, and its failure to find an equivalent in its mise-en-scène for Jake Horner's essential narrational voice.