Literature/Film Quarterly

In his magnificent creation All That Jazz, Bob Fosse implies that all our lives are magnificent creations, for there is no reality outside of the imagination that conceives it and the mind that perceives it. Life is an individual experience as each imagination...

Could E. L. Doctorow's Billy Bathgate (1987) be what it is had Francis Coppola's Cotton Club (1984) not preceded it?Credits for the screenplay include Coppola, along with William Kennedy and Mario Puzo. A triumvirate of talent triumphantly mines material...

Both Magritte's and Pirandello's works involve as their primary subject other works of art. In both, the border between the interior work and the larger reality that surrounds it is obscure, creating a confusion of reality levels. And both raise questions...

Arthur Schnitzler, a Viennese contemporary of writer and physician Sigmund Freud (Nehring 179-94) wrote many plays and short stories. He is considered to be perhaps the best chronicler of fin-de-siècle Vienna and the dying Austro-Hungarian empire (Alter...

Japanese Cinema ReframedJapanese Cinema Refrained Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre and History. Arthur Nolletti, Jr. and David Desser, eds., Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1992. xviii+ 365 pages. $39.95 cloth, $18.95 paperback.Reframing Japanese...

Recent studies by Rosalind Krauss and Martin Jay consider surrealist photography and film as part of a more generalized revolt against the philosophical tradition of the Cartesian self; for both writers, surrealism's protest often took the form of an...

The issue of adaptation has long been a salient one among film critics for quite practical reasons, as Dudley Andrew has observed:The making of a film out of an earlier text is virtually as old as the machinery of cinema itself. Well over half of all...

When The Bedford Incident, directed by James B. Harris, was released in the fall of 1965, reviewers emphasized its relationship to two earlier films about the hazards of living in a world ruled by the principle of Mutual Assured Destruction: Dr. Strangelove,...

David Hare and his play writing colleagues, weaned on 1960s British university radicalism, have continued the expression of chronic social discontent begun so scathingly by John Osborne's 1956 play Look Back in Anger. But in an effort to spread their...