The Literature/film Reader: Issues of AdaptationJames Michael Welsh, James M. Welsh, Peter Lev Scarecrow Press, 2007 - 361 páginas 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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... Hamlet ( 2002 ) and Plato's Apology ( 1976 ) and Crito ( 1956 ) , the scheduled material for the day . I ended up doing both , using Hamlet and Socrates as characters who serve as testaments to humanity's ability to not succumb to ...
... Hamlet , the repeated cross - cutting from Elsinore to brief , silent images of Fortinbras and his army generates a mounting anxiety , at first undefined but later crystallizing in a real threat to the ending as a vast batal- lion runs ...
... Hamlet in the space of the ending and produce the outsider and contender - for the throne and the ending — as the focal point , the subject matter.5 Fortinbras's gaze is another sightline , which acts to change the place where events ...
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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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