From Page to Celluloid: Michael Cunningham's the Hours (Critical Essay‪)‬

Michael Cunningham's The Hours is a typical postmodern novel which relies on intertextuality, crossing boundaries between fact and fiction, and an interwoven narrative. This article examines the adaptation of this "internal" novel to a well-orchestrated sequence of audio-visual representations. It explores the novel's formal and syntactical repetitions and their rendition in the iconic and pictorial cinematic medium. **********