The literature/film reader : issues of adaptation / edited by James M. Welsh, Peter Lev.
| Other author | Welsh, James M., 1938-2013. |
| Other author | Lev, Peter, 1948- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007. |
| Description | xxviii, 361 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Supplemental Content | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Issues of screen adaptation : what is truth? / James M. Welsh -- It wasn't like that in the book-- / Brian McFarlane -- Literature vs. literacy : two futures for adaptation studies / Thomas M. Leitch -- Adaptation studies and the history of ideas : the case of Apocalypse now / Donald M. Whaley -- Adaptation studies revisited : purposes, perspectives, and inspiration / Sarah Cardwell -- The Cold War's "undigested apple-dumpling" : imaging Moby-Dick in 1956 and 2001 / Walter C. Metz -- Trying harder : probability, objectivity, and rationality in adaptation studies / David L. Kranz -- What is a "Shakespeare film," anyway? / James M. Welsh -- Returning to Naples : seeing the end in Shakespeare film adaptation / Yong Li Lan -- Pop goes the Shakespeare : Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / Elsie Walker -- Reframing adaptation : representing the invisible (on The house of mirth, directed by Terence Davies, 2000) / Wendy Everett -- Sucking Dracula : mythic biography into fiction into film, or Why Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula is not really Bram Stoker's Dracula or Wallachia's Dracula / James M. Welsh -- Vertigo, novel and film / Peter Lev -- Heinlein, Verhoeven, and the problem of the real : Starship troopers / J.P. Telotte -- Literary hardball : the novel-to-screen complexities of The Manchurian candidate / Linda Constanzo Cahir -- The oak : a balancing act from page to screen / Odette Caufman-Blumenfeld -- Adaptation and the Cold War : Mankiewicz's The quiet American / Brian Neve -- All the quiet Americans / C. Kenneth Pellow -- Camille Claudel : biography constructed as melodrama / Joan Driscoll Lynch -- W.C. Handy goes uptown : Hollywood constructs the American blues musician / John C. Tibbetts -- Memoir and the limits of adaptation / William Mooney -- Getting it right : the Alamo on film / Frank Thompson -- "Plains" speaking : sound, sense, and sensibility in Ang Lee's Ride with the devil / John C. Tibbetts -- Where are we going, where have we been? / Thomas M. Leitch -- The future of adaptation studies / Peter Lev. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Literature/film reader. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007 |
| LCCN | 2007009828 |
| ISBN | 9780810859494 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0810859491 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PN1997.85 .L516 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |