The literature/film reader
Subtitle: issues of adaptation
By: edited by James M. Welsh, Peter Lev.
Contributors: Welsh, James Michael.; Lev, Peter, 1948-.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780810859494
Subjects: Film adaptations -- History and criticism.; Motion pictures and literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: Issues of screen adaptation : what is truth? / James M. Welsh; value: It wasn't like that in the book; value: / Brian McFarlane; value: Literature vs. literacy : two futures for adaptation studies / Thomas M. Leitch; value: Adaptation studies and the history of ideas : the case of Apocalypse now / Donald M. Whaley; value: Adaptation studies revisited : purposes, perspectives, and inspiration / Sarah Cardwell; value: The Cold War's "undigested apple-dumpling" : imaging Moby-Dick in 1956 and 2001 / Walter C. Metz; value: Trying harder : probability, objectivity, and rationality in adaptation studies / David L. Kranz; value: What is a "Shakespeare film," anyway? / James M. Welsh; value: Returning to Naples : seeing the end in Shakespeare film adaptation / Yong Li Lan; value: Pop goes the Shakespeare : Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / Elsie Walker; value: Reframing adaptation : representing the invisible (on The house of mirth, directed by Terence Davies, 2000) / Wendy Everett; value: ^Sucking Dracula : mythic biography into fiction into film, or Why Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula is not really Bram Stoker's Dracula or Wallachia's Dracula / James M. Welsh; value: Vertigo, novel and film / Peter Lev; value: Heinlein, Verhoeven, and the problem of the real : Starship troopers / J. P. Telotte; value: Literary hardball : the novel-to-screen complexities of The Manchurian candidate / Linda Constanzo Cahir; value: The oak : a balancing act from page to screen / Odette Caufman-Blumenfeld; value: Adaptation and the Cold War : Mankiewicz's The quiet American / Brian Neve; value: All the quiet Americans / C. Kenneth Pellow; value: Camille Claudel : biography constructed as melodrama / Joan Driscoll Lynch; value: W. C. Handy goes uptown : Hollywood constructs the American blues musician / John C. Tibbetts; value: Memoir and the limits of adaptation / William Mooney; value: Getting it right : the Alamo on film / Frank Thompson; value: ^"Plains" speaking : sound, sense, and sensibility in Ang Lee's Ride with the devil / John C. Tibbetts; value: Where are we going, where have we been? / Thomas M. Leitch; value: The future of adaptation studies / Peter Lev.