Film adaptation and its discontents : from Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ

Most books on film adaptation -- the relation between films and their literary sources -- focus on a series of close one-to-one comparisons between specific films and canonical novels. This volume identifies and investigates a far wider array of problems posed by the process of adaptation. Beginning...

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Main Author Leitch, Thomas M.
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, ©2007.
SeriesBook collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects
Film adaptations > History and criticism.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780801891878
9781435692565
9780801885655
9780801892714
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xi, 354 stran)

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Table of Contents:
  • Literature versus literacy
  • One-reel epics
  • The word made film
  • Entry-level Dickens
  • Between adaptation and allusion
  • Exceptional fidelity
  • Traditions of quality
  • Streaming pictures
  • The hero with a hundred faces
  • The adapter as auteur
  • Postliterary adaptation
  • Based on a true story.

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