Literature and film : a guide to the theory and practice of film adaptation The theory and practice of adaptation Robert Stam Improvements and reparations at Mansfield Park Tim Watson Keeping the carcass in motion : adaptation and transmutations of the national in The last of the Mohicans Jacquelyn Kilpatrick The discreet charm of the leisure class : Terence Daviess The house of mirth Richard Porton In search of adaptation : Proust and film Melissa Anderson The grapes of wrath : thematic emphasis through visual style Vivian C. Sobchack Cape Fear and trembling : familial dread Kirsten Thompson The carnival of repression : German left wing politics and The lost honor of Katharina Blum Alexandra Seibel Serial time : Bluebeard in Stepford Bliss Cua Lim Boyz n the hood chronotope : Spike Lee Richard Price and the changing authorship of Clockers Paula J. Massood Defusing The English patient Patrick Deer Carnivals and goldfish : history and crisis in The butcher boy Jessica Scarlata Passion or heartburn The uses of humor in Like water for chocolate Dianna C. Niebylski Beloved : the adaptation of an American slave narrative Mia Mask Oral traditions literature and cinema in Africa Mbye Cham Memory and history in the politics of adaptation : revisiting the partition of India in tamas Ranjani Mazumdar The written scene : writers as figures of cinematic redemption Paul Arthur