| This essay studies the ways of how the novel and films represent Emma in Madame Bovary,especially how to adapt it in films.I mainly selected the novle translated by Li Jianwu, the films directed by Jean Renoir ,Vincente Minnelli ,Claude Chabrol ,Tim Fywell.By using feminist film studies,view culture studies and narrative theory, this essay constructs the frame as follows: the relationship between Emma and reading romance, the adaptaion and representation of reading in the film, how to criticize the narative ways, and the female desire in both from feminism. By focusing on sex, desire, romantice love and the consumption socity. This essay tries to discover the ways of narrating the woman and romance reading,how to deal with it.The main conclusions are the follows: the romance novels made a great impact on Emma's life,such as the ways of life, the realationships between wife and husband ,and the melancholy temperament .From this aspect,the tragedy of emma is not only the failure of love or spending extravagantly,but also a tragedy of a reader,espeacially on reading romance.this is the other important diffrence,which made she so tragedy than other female charancters in novels or in the history of novel . After films adaptation,emma's identity as a romance stories reader was covered up .So we cann't see the romance reader's role which played very important role in the novel. what is worse that these adaptation and representation deepened the emma's stereotype——a flippant,greedy,impractical and depravity female. But this is a possiblity to analysis and represent this character in a radical way when we put our interest on the relation between Emma and romance reading.
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