Film Phenomenology and Adaptation Sensuous Elaboration argues that in order to make sense of film adaptation we must first apprehend their sensual form Across its chapters this book brings the philosophy and research methodology of phenomenology into contact with adaptation studies examining how vision hearing touch and the structures of the embodied imagination and memory thicken and make tangible an adaptation s source In doing so this book not only conceives adaptation as an intertextual layering of source material and adaptation but also an intersubjective and textural experience that includes the materiality of the body