From fidelity to history : film adaptations as cultural events in the twentieth century Introduction Adaptation as reception: how film historians can contribute to the literature to film debates Post Cold War readings of the receptions of Anglo American Hollywood. Adaptations in Cold War West Germany: 1950 1963 Eine revolution des films : The third man (1949) the Cold War and alternatives to nationalism and coca colonization in Europe The bridge on the River Kwai (1957) revisited: combat cinema American culture and the German past Josef K von 1963 : Orson Welles Americanized version of the the trial and the changing functions of the Kafkaesque in Cold War West Germany Postfeminist relations between classic texts and Hollywood film adaptations in the United States in the 1990s: Introduction. Jane mania : the Jane Austen film boom in the 1990s Thelma and sense and Louise and sensibility: challenging dichotomies in womens history through film and literature Jamesian proportions : the Henry James film boom in the 1990s Conclusion A case for the case study : the future of adaptation studies as a branch of transnational film history