A Comparative Study of Characters in the Films of Bahman Farmanara and Nouveau Roman

Since 1970, comparative literature which was traditionally concerned with the literatures of different languages turned to interdisciplinary studies, specially to the analysis of relations between literature and the other arts like cinema. In fact, cinema has always used story as a base for film but the most important point is the common terms like character, time, space, point of view, images presented by the two media. The mutual influence of the two arts is significant as well. This article tries to explore the similarities of characterization in film and the novel and will demonstrate how a certain theme appears in written and visual texts regardless of the boundaries we usually draw between the two.