Now a major motion picture : film adaptations of literature and drama / Christine Geraghty.
"Going beyond the process of adaptation, Geraghty is more interested in the films themselves and how they draw on our sense of recall. While a film reflects its literary source, it also invites comparisons to our memories and associations with other versions of the original. For example, a view...
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
[2008]
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Series: | Genre and beyond.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Narrative and characterization in classic adaptations : David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Pride and Prejudice
- 2. Art cinema, authorship, and the impossible novel : adaptations of Proust, Woolf, and Joyce
- 3. Tennessee Williams on film : space, melodrama, and stardom
- 4. Feminism, authorship, and genre : adaptations of the novels of Edna Ferber and Pearl S. Buck
- 5. Revising the Western : movement and description in The Last of the Mohicans and Brokeback Mountain
- 6. Space, setting, and mobility in Old New York : The Heiress, The House of Mirth, and Gangs of New York
- Conclusion
- Filmography
- Selected bibliography
- Index
- About the author.