"Rather than limiting the cinema, as certain French New Wave critics feared, adaptation can give new inspiration to explore the possibilities of the intersection of text and film. This collection of essays covers various aspects of adaptation studies--questions of genre and myth, race and gende...

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Main Author:	Wells-Lassagne, Shannon (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson [u.a.] McFarland 2013
Subjects:	Geschichte Film adaptations / History and criticism Motion pictures and literature Motion picture authorship Verfilmung Literatur Aufsatzsammlung
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	"Rather than limiting the cinema, as certain French New Wave critics feared, adaptation can give new inspiration to explore the possibilities of the intersection of text and film. This collection of essays covers various aspects of adaptation studies--questions of genre and myth, race and gender, readaptation, and pedagogical and practical approaches"--
Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-243) and index Introduction -- Setting the scene. Adaptation, sound and Shakespeare in the 1930s / Deborah Cartmell -- Postmodern screened writers / Kamilla Elliott -- Adapting genre. True stories: film and the non-fiction narrative / Kevin Dwyer -- The writing of a film noir: Ernest Hemingway and the killers / Delphine Letort -- Filmic avatars of The Maltese falcon / Gilles Menegaldo -- The aesthetic of epic in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet / Sarah Hatchuel -- Sociocultural concerns: race and gender. White lies, noir lighting, dark others / Joyce Goggin -- Making red black: race and The Shawshank redemption / Donald Ulin -- Shaft's political shifts / Helane Charlery -- Sexual politics: The last September, novel and film / Shannon Wells-Lassagne -- Jane Austen goes to Bollywood- with a pinch of salt / Florence Cabaret -- Aesthetics of adaptation. Surface and depth in Korea / Nicole Cloarec -- The visible in Howard's end and The remains of the day / Karim Chabani -- Adapting E.M. Forster's subversive aesthetics / Laurent Mellet -- Remakes and readaptation. Re-adaptation as part of the myth: Orson Welles and Don Quixote's "outings" / Sebastien Lefait -- Bad Shakespeare: adapting a tradition / Charles Holdefer -- Readapting "the horror": versions of Conrad's Heart of darkness / Gene M. Moore -- Scarfaces: documents, messages and works of art / Dominique Sipiere -- Conclusion: from theory to practice -- Lost in adaptation-a producer's view / Roger Shannon
Physical Description:	VI, 247 S.