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Novel to Film: An Introduction to the Theory of Adaptation » Read Now
by Brian McFarlane. 284 pgs.

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...bibliographical references. 1. Film adaptations. I. Title. PN 1997-85-M338...major criterion for judging the film adaptation is pervasive. No critical line...kinds of...
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Video Versions: Film Adaptations of Plays on Video » Read Now
by Thomas L. Erskine, James M. Welsh, John C. Tibbetts, Tony Williams. 418 pgs.

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Many of our favorite films began as plays--some as well known as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and some not so well known as You've Got Mail's origin, a 1937 play Parfumerie by Miklos Laszlo. Video Versions identifies nearly 300 films and their theatrical origins, providing readers with an...
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Many of our favorite films began as plays--some as well known as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and some not so well known as You've Got Mail's origin, a 1937 play Parfumerie by Miklos Laszlo. Video Versions identifies nearly 300 films and their theatrical origins, providing readers with an overview of the films and highlighting similarities and differences to the source plays. Perfect for teachers, students, and anyone interested in theater and film, it is the most complete resource available for video versions of plays.
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Concepts in Film Theory (Chap. 6 "Adaptation: The Sources of Films") » Read Now
by Dudley Andrew. 242 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...narrative structure, adaptation, evaluation, identification...dominate our era in film theory? More important...developed courses in adaptation, in film as drama, or...
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Theatre to Cinema: Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film » Read Now
by Ben Brewster, Lea Jacobs. 244 pgs.

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This is the first book-length study for nearly fifty years of the relations between early cinema and nineteenth-century theatre. Incorporating the results of recent reconsiderations of early cinema, Brewster explores what features of nineteenth-century theatre early film-makers borrowed or adapted...
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This is the first book-length study for nearly fifty years of the relations between early cinema and nineteenth-century theatre. Incorporating the results of recent reconsiderations of early cinema, Brewster explores what features of nineteenth-century theatre early film-makers borrowed or adapted, and the ways specific characteristics of cinema inflected these borrowings. Theatre to Cinema is a seminal work which will profoundly alter our understanding of early cinema.
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Conrad and Cinema: The Art of Adaptation » Read Now
by Gene D. Phillips. 220 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...authors previous studies of the film adaptation of the fiction of other great...Evil." In order to make the film adaptation of a novel appeal to a large...freedom the next...
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Dracula in the Dark: The Dracula Film Adaptations » Read Now
by James Craig Holte. 161 pgs.

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One hundred years after his creation by Bram Stoker, Dracula is still fascinating us. This study traces the changing nature of film representations of Dracula, from the early silent adaptations to recent popular dramas. Holte suggests that vampire films and Dracula adaptations have become an...
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One hundred years after his creation by Bram Stoker, Dracula is still fascinating us. This study traces the changing nature of film representations of Dracula, from the early silent adaptations to recent popular dramas. Holte suggests that vampire films and Dracula adaptations have become an independent genre, the dark romance, with its own set of narrative conventions and audience expectations combining horror and eroticism. This engaging study provides readers with a natural history of the vampire, an examination of the work of Bram Stoker, a history and analysis of many film adaptations of Dracula, a survey of contemporary criticism and theory, and an extensive annotated bibliography of vampire film, fiction, and criticism.
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Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Screenplay as Interpretation » Read Now
by Marilyn Hoder-Salmon. 188 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...led me into my own study of film adaptation and womens fiction, but I took...to interpret literature and film, adaptation offers an opportunity for...
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Jekyll and Hyde Adapted: Dramatizations of Cultural Anxiety » Read Now
by Brian A. Rose. 182 pgs.

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This book offers a compelling examination of performed adaptations of Stevenson's masterpiece, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Rose investigates how a single text, adapted many times in the past century, can serve to elucidate certain shifts in cultural attitudes. Providing an analysis...
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This book offers a compelling examination of performed adaptations of Stevenson's masterpiece, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Rose investigates how a single text, adapted many times in the past century, can serve to elucidate certain shifts in cultural attitudes. Providing an analysis of the relation between culture and performance, the author argues that Stevenson's adapters have infused the original story with concerns about issues of race, class, gender, and economics.
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Revisioning Duras: Film, Race, Sex » Read Now
by James S. Williams, Janet Sayers. 224 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The extraordinary range, complexity and power of Marguerite Duras �6 novelist, dramatist, film-maker, essayist �6 has been justly recognized. Yet in the years following her death in 1996, there has been an increasing tendency to consecrate her work, particularly by those critics...
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The extraordinary range, complexity and power of Marguerite Duras �6 novelist, dramatist, film-maker, essayist �6 has been justly recognized. Yet in the years following her death in 1996, there has been an increasing tendency to consecrate her work, particularly by those critics who approach it primarily in biographical terms. The British and American specialists featured in this interdisciplinary collection aim to resurrect the Duras corpus in all its forms by submitting it theoretically to three main areas of enquiry. By establishing how far Duras�2s work questions and redefines the parameters of literary and cinematic form, as well as the categories of race and ethnicity, homosexuality and heterosexuality, fantasy and violence, the contributors to this volume "revision" Duras�2s work in the widest sense of the term.
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The Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Rethinking Science Fiction Film in the Age of Electronic (Re)production (Discussion of film adaptation begins on p. 27) » Read Now
by Brooks Landon, Marshall B. Tymn. 198 pgs.

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Landon's book is wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and near state-of-the-art. It concerns science fiction film and, toward the end, almost becomes SF itself in its provocative speculations on the future of such film. The first part of the book argues that most criticism of SF film has been inadequate...
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Landon's book is wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and near state-of-the-art. It concerns science fiction film and, toward the end, almost becomes SF itself in its provocative speculations on the future of such film. The first part of the book argues that most criticism of SF film has been inadequate because it is based on literary rather than film-specific standards. The second argues that SF film will soon become either obsolete or be totally transformed through new computer technology. Science fiction can be seen to encompass not only SF in print, film, TV and comic books, but has become all-pervasive in contemporary culture.
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Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality ("About Adaptations from Novels: Difference in Cinematic Quality" begins on p. 239) » Read Now
by Siegfried Kracauer. 364 pgs.

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...formal approach to film, this is a quite...doubt these two adaptations represent ingenious...Like film, the novel aspires...ABOUT ADAPTATIONS FROM NOVELS...an experimental...
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The Holocaust in the Text: Victor Hugo's Les Miserables and the Allegorical Film Adaptation, in Film Criticism » Read Now
by Steven Alan Carr. 17 pgs.

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...Miserables and the allegorical film adaptation. by Steven Alan Carr...consider two late-twentieth century film adaptations of Victor Hugos classic 1862...highlight the ways...
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Film Adaptation and the Censors: 1940s Hollywood and Raymond Chandler, in Studies in the Novel » Read Now
by John Paul Athanasourelis. 15 pgs.

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...Film Adaptation and the Censors: 1940s Hollywood and...Goodbye (1973), the sheer number of film adaptations and the eccentric variety of interpretation...behavior and the...
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Cain, Naturalism and Noir, in Film Criticism » Read Now
by Christopher Orr. 18 pgs.

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...1981 Rafelson film versions of...Wilder 1944 adaptation of Double Indemnity...Garnetts 1946 adaptation of Postman, which followed the film versions of...as Rafelsons film...
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The Female Voice in 'To Kill a Mockingbird': Narrative Strategies in Film and Novel, in The Mississippi Quarterly » Read Now
by Dean Shackelford. 13 pgs.

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...compromise of the novels full power. Granted, when a film adaptation is made, the screenwriter need not be faithful...original as an outline for a totally different work on...
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Re-viewing Remakes, in Film Criticism » Read Now
by Constantine Verevis. 19 pgs.

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...by the word property. Every film adaptation is defined by its legally sanctioned...although adaptation rights (e.g., film adaptation rights of a novel) are...