When stories travel : cross-cultural encounters between fiction and film /
Della Coletta, Cristina,1962-
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Fear death by water": The postman always rings twice and the frauds of memory -- Myth in the mirror of history: The rules of fate and the responsibilities of choice in Visconti's Ossessione -- Grotesque doublings and the dangers of the sublime: Poe's "Never bet the Devil your head" -- Fellini's "Unoriginal" scripts: The creative power of the grotesque -- India through the looking glass: The narrative heritage of the West and Antonio Tabucchi's Notturno indiano -- "A cinema of quotations": Nocturne indien; or, How Alain Corneau filmed Antonio Tabucchi's "Night" -- The writer in the looking glass: Jorge Luis Borges's "Tema del traidor y del héroe" and the ambivalences of the uncanny -- From icon to simulacrum: Bertolucci's La strategia del ragno and the urban labyrinths of the uncanny.
Film adaptations
Motion pictures and literature.
Hermeneutics.