With the aim of placing film squarely in the narrative tradition, even as it connects as well with the tradition of graphic art and photography, Kamilla Elliott, Assistant Professor in the Department of English, examines historical, semiotic, cognitive, aesthetic, and cultural aspects of literary film adaptation. In her book in progress, Novel Images: Films of Victorian Fiction, 1901- 1997, notions of metaphor, the iconography of human representation, and relations between words and images in literature and film are central issues. Elliott argues that film adaptations are “performative acts of literary criticism”; but whereas both literary and film narratives (as in Polanski’s Tess) seek to establish and derealize the real through metaphor, film has available to it many more modes of metaphorical expression than does literature.