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One of the areas of research in comparative literature is the study of the relationship between literature and arts. Hezaro Zek Shab is one of the works that have had a dramatic effect on various arts, including performing arts, and perhaps less literary work can be similar in this regard. Dudley Andrew believes that there are three basic relationships between the adaptive cinematic effect and the literary text: borrowing, convergence and conversion and loyalty. This research, in a comparative approach based on Andrew's theory of adaptation, seeks to prove the hypothesis that Shahrzad's film has been influenced and adapted from the space of one thousand one nights. The research concludes by proving this hypothesis that Shahrzad's film is more adapted to the type of "borrowing" because the filmmaker has taken the ideas and thematic or textual contributions to the text of the Hezaro Zek Shab. This book is exactly the same as those literary texts in this type of adaptation; in "borrowing," the filmmaker is looking for a text that has a reputation as a myth and an ancient role of the pattern in the mind of the audience.
 

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Practicing Ecocriticism, this research attempts to study a movie, Pear Tree, by Dariush MehrJui, adapted from the short story by Goli Taraghi with the same name. Ecocriticism tries to highlight the interrelations between culture and nature in literary texts. This approach tends to analyze texts by studying the importance of the environment in them. In other words, the subject of this approach is surveying the importance of the space in the process of signification. In the movie Pear Tree characters have close relation with the nature or urban spaces, while in the story the main character is mostly drowned in his thoughts. In this study, we try to find the connection between the characters and the space, the conflict between the past and the present, time and space’s gender, and the function of memory. The contradiction between nature (feminine) and culture (masculine) is what actually gives meaning to both texts. The characters cannot be analyzed without considering their relation to the nature (Damavand Garden) or urban places.