The Writer on Film [electronic resource] : Screening Literary Authorship /
Buchanan, J.editor.
Examining films about writers and acts of writing, The Writer on Film brilliantly refreshes some of the well-worn 'adaptation' debates by inviting film and literature to engage with each other trenchantly and anew – through acts of explicit configuration not adaptation.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction; Judith Buchanan -- PART I: CINEMA'S VERSIONS AND USES OF LITERACY LIVES -- 1. Authorship, Imagination and the Cinema; Laura Marcus -- 2. Gendered Authorship I: the Female Writer. Here is the Story of my Career--: the Woman Writer on Film; Sonia Haiduc -- 3. Gendered Authorship II: the Male Writer. Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: Screening Authorial Masculinity in Sylvia (2003) and The Edge of Love (2008); Sian Harris -- 4. Romantic Authorship. Romantic Genius on Screen: Jane Campion's Bright Star (2009) and Julien Temple's Pandaemonium (2000); Julian North -- 5. Authorship Iconized, Metonymized, Debunked. The Tables of Memory: Shakespeare, Cinema and the Writing Desk; Megan Murray-Pepper -- 6. Commercialized Authorship. Brit Lit Biopics, 1990-2010; Andrew Higson -- 7. Literary Biopics and Literary Biographies. Visions of Authorship: a Literary Biographer's Perspective; Geoffrey Wall -- PART II: CINEMA'S FICTIONAL AUTHORS AND AUTHORIAL PROXIES -- 8. Adaptation as Encoded Authorial Biography I. Biographical Wish-Fulfilment in the Hemingway Screen Adaptations; R. Barton Palmer -- 9. Adaptation as Encoded Authorial Biography II. Becoming Jane in Adaptations of Austen's Fiction; Deborah Cartmell -- 10. Authorial Proxies. Duplicated and Duplicitous Self-configurings in Kaufman's Adaptation (2002); Gennelle Smith -- 11. Configuring Authorial Absence. Writing the Endings of Cinema: Evocations of Authorial Absence in the Cinematic Paratext from The Tempest to the Book of Kells; Richard Burt -- 12. Fictional Writers on Screen: Letter Writers. Deliveries of Absence: Epistolary Structures in Classical Cinema; Clara Rowland -- 13. Fictional Writers on Screen: Diarists. Far from Literature: Writing as Bare Act in Robert Bresson's Journal d'un cure; de campagne (1951); Erica Sheen -- 14. Fictional Writers on Screen: Playwrights and Documentarists. Documentary Li(v)es: Writing Falsehoods, Righting Wrongs in von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others (2006); Judith Buchanan.
Examining films about writers and acts of writing, The Writer on Film brilliantly refreshes some of the well-worn 'adaptation' debates by inviting film and literature to engage with each other trenchantly and anew – through acts of explicit configuration not adaptation.
Motion pictures and television.
Film genres.
Literature—Philosophy.
Communication.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Motion pictures—History.
Screen Studies.
Genre.
Literary Theory.
Media Studies.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Film History.