The Literature/film Reader: Issues of AdaptationJames Michael Welsh, James M. Welsh, Peter Lev From examinations of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, The Literature Film Reader: Issues of Adaptation covers a wide range of films adapted from other sources. The first section presents essays on the hows and whys of adaptation studies, and subsequent sections highlight films adapted from a variety of sources, including classic and popular literature, drama, biography, and memoir. The last section offers a new departure for adaptation studies, suggesting that films about history--often a separate category of film study--can be seen as adaptations of records of the past. The anthology concludes with speculations about the future of adaptation studies. Several essays provide detailed analyses of films, in some cases discussing more than one adaptation of a literary or dramatic source, such as The Manchurian Candidate, The Quiet American, and Romeo and Juliet. Other works examined include Moby Dick, The House of Mirth, Dracula, and Starship Troopers, demonstrating the breadth of material considered for this anthology. Although many of the essays appeared in Literature/Film Quarterly, more than half are original contributions. Chosen for their readability, these essays avoid theoretical jargon as much as possible. For this reason alone, this collection should be of interest to not only cinema scholars but to anyone interested in films and their source material. Ultimately, The Literature Film Reader: Issues of Adaptation provides an excellent overview of this critical aspect of film studies. |
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... seem ; anticorporeality ( 6 ) presumes that the " seen " will somehow be regarded as " obscene " because cinema “ offends through its inescapable materiality " ( a relatively silly assumption , seems to me ) ; the myth of facility ...
... seem ; anticorporeality ( 6 ) presumes that the " seen " will somehow be regarded as " obscene " because cinema “ offends through its inescapable materiality " ( a relatively silly assumption , seems to me ) ; the myth of facility ...
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... seems to invoke an enormous amount of detailed and painstak- ing research , devoted to making the film as exact as ... seem almost omnipresent signalling a world driven by hostil- ity . But they also indicate that this Verona is a world ...
... seems to invoke an enormous amount of detailed and painstak- ing research , devoted to making the film as exact as ... seem almost omnipresent signalling a world driven by hostil- ity . But they also indicate that this Verona is a world ...
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... seems not only awkward and out of place but a pathetic misfit . The action is set in 1898 ( though the novel was published in 1897 ) , about the time the movies were born , and Coppola sets up a meeting between Vlad and Mina at a ...
... seems not only awkward and out of place but a pathetic misfit . The action is set in 1898 ( though the novel was published in 1897 ) , about the time the movies were born , and Coppola sets up a meeting between Vlad and Mina at a ...
Contents
It Wasnt Like That in the Book | 3 |
Purposes | 51 |
Imaging MobyDick in 1956 and 2001 | 65 |
Copyright | |
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