The Literature/film Reader: Issues of AdaptationJames Michael Welsh, James M. Welsh, Peter Lev Scarecrow Press, 2007 - 361 pagina's 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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... begins " ( 1974 , 169 ) . The very process of supplying omitted material draws each reader closer to the story , its world , and the process of world making . No story , of course , is the whole story , and no film adaptation of Vanity ...
... begin with the case against the traditional comparative analysis of adaptations . I have argued elsewhere that we should reject ... begins with an introduc- tion of the characters ; a new scene depicting Melmotte's 52 2 Sarah Cardwell.
... begin , he opens the performance . This emphasis on performance is again im- portant in establishing the program's links with other recent Davies adapta- tions ... begins and ends ; the creation Adaptation Studies Revisited 2 57.
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It Wasnt Like That in the Book | 3 |
Purposes | 51 |
Imaging MobyDick in 1956 and 2001 | 65 |
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