Vision/Re-Vision
Subtitle: Adapting Contemporary American Fiction by Women to Film
Publisher: Bowling Green University Popular Press
Published: October 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780879727130
Subjects: Films, cinema; Literary studies: general; Women's studies; Special Subjects In Motion Pictures; Film and video adaptations; Women As Authors (American Literature); Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; English; Cinema/Film: Book; USA; History; Film & Video - History & Criticism; United States; Women and literature; Film & Video - General; Women authors; 20th century; American fiction; Film adaptations; History and criticism
Description: The essays in Vision/Re-Vision analyze in detail ten popular and important films adapted from contemporary American fiction by women, addressing the ways in which the writers' latent or overt feminist messages are reinterpreted by the filmmakers who bring them to the screen, demonstrating that there is much to praise as well as much to fault in the adaptations and that the process of adaptation itself is instructive rather than destructive since it enriches understanding about both media.