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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Main Author: Geraghty, Christine
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2008]
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.