From fidelity to history
Subtitle: film adaptations as cultural events in the twentieth century
By: Anne-Marie Scholz
Series: Transatlantic perspectives -- 11
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780857457318
Subjects: History and criticism; Film adaptations; Motion pictures and history; Motion pictures and literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Adaptation as reception: how film historians can contribute to the "literature to film" debates; title: Post Cold War readings of the receptions of Anglo-American Hollywood. Adaptations in Cold War West Germany: 1950-1963; title: "Eine revolution des films": The third man (1949), the Cold War, and alternatives to nationalism and "coca-colonization" in Europe; title: The bridge on the River Kwai (1957) revisited: combat cinema, American culture and the German past; title: "Josef K von 1963": Orson Welles' "Americanized" version of the the trial and the changing functions of the "Kafkaesque" in Cold War West Germany; title: 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; title: Thelma and sense and Louise and sensibility: challenging dichotomies in women's history through film and literature; title: "Jamesian proportions": the Henry James film boom in the 1990s; title: Conclusion; title: A case for the "case study": the future of adaptation studies as a branch of transnational film history.