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Literature and film : a guide to the theory and practice of film adaptation /
Literature and Film is a cornucopia of vibrant essays that chart the history and confluence of literature and film. It explores in detail a wide and international spectrum of novels and adaptations, bringing together the very latest scholarship in the field.
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell,
c2005.
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0420/2004015927.html |
Table of Contents:
- The theory and practice of adaptation / Robert Stam
- Improvements and reparations at Mansfield Park / Tim Watson
- Keeping the carcass in motion : adaptation and transmutations of the national in The last of the Mohicans / Jacquelyn Kilpatrick
- The discreet charm of the leisure class : Terence Davies's The house of mirth / Richard Porton
- In search of adaptation : Proust and film / Melissa Anderson
- The grapes of wrath : thematic emphasis through visual style / Vivian C. Sobchack
- Cape Fear and trembling : familial dread / Kirsten Thompson
- The carnival of repression : German left-wing politics and The lost honor of Katharina Blum / Alexandra Seibel
- Serial time : Bluebeard in Stepford / Bliss Cua Lim
- Boyz 'n the hood chronotope : Spike Lee, Richard Price, and the changing authorship of Clockers / Paula J. Massood
- Defusing The English patient / Patrick Deer
- Carnivals and goldfish : history and crisis in The butcher boy / Jessica Scarlata
- Passion or heartburn? The uses of humor in Like water for chocolate / Dianna C. Niebylski
- Beloved : the adaptation of an American slave narrative / Mia Mask
- Oral traditions, literature, and cinema in Africa / Mbye Cham
- Memory and history in the politics of adaptation : revisiting the partition of India in tamas / Ranjani Mazumdar
- The written scene : writers as figures of cinematic redemption / Paul Arthur.