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A companion to literature, film, and adaptation

Title
A companion to literature, film, and adaptation / edited by Deborah Cartmell.
Publication
Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

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Additional Authors
Cartmell, Deborah.
Description
xiii, 433 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Series Statement
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 81
Uniform Title
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 81.
Subject
  • Film adaptations > History and criticism
  • Television adaptations > History and criticism
  • English literature > Adaptations
  • American literature > Adaptations
  • Motion pictures and literature
  • Television and literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
100+ years of adaptations, or, Adaptation as the art form of democracy / Deborah Cartmell -- pt. 1 History and contexts: from image to sound. Literary adaptation in the silent era / Judith Buchanan ; Writing on the silent screen / Gregory Robinson ; Adaptation and modernism / Richard J. Hand ; Sound adaptation: Sam Taylor's The taming of the shrew / Deborah Cartmell -- pt. 2 Approaches. Adaptation and intertextuality, or, What isn't an adaptation, and what does it matter? / Thomas Leitch ; Film authorship and adaptation / Shelley Cobb ; The business of adaptation: reading the market / Simone Murray -- pt. 3. Genre: film, television. Adapting the X-Men: comic-book narratives in film franchises / Martin Zeller-Jacques ; The classic novel on British television / Richard Butt -- pt. 4. Authors and periods. Screened writers / Kamilla Elliott ; Murdering Othello / Douglas M. Lanier ; Hamlet's hauntographology: film philology, facsimiles, and textual faux-rensics / Richard Burt ; Shakespeare to Austen on screen / Lisa Hopkins ; Austen and Sterne: beyond heritage / Ariane Hudelet ; Neo-Victorian adaptations / Imelda Whelehan -- pt. 5. Beyond authors and canonical texts. Costume and adaptation / Pamela Church Gibson and Tamar Jeffers McDonald ; Music into movies: the film of the song / Ian Inglis ; Rambo on page and screen / Jeremy Strong -- pt. 6 Case studies: adaptable and unadaptable texts. Writing for the movies: writing and screening Atonement (2007) / Yvonne Griggs ; Foregrounding the media: Atonement (2007) as an adaptation / Christine Geraghty ; Paratextual adaptation: Heart of darkness as Hearts of darkness via Apocalypse now / Jamie Sherry ; Authorship, commerce, and Harry Potter / James Russell ; Adapting the unadaptable; the screenwriter's perspective / Diane Lake.
Call Number
MFL 13-4480
ISBN
  • 9781444334975 (cloth)
  • 1444334972 (cloth)
LCCN
  • 2012008957
  • 40021530710
OCLC
780398249
Title
A companion to literature, film, and adaptation / edited by Deborah Cartmell.
Imprint
Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Series
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 81
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 81.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Cartmell, Deborah.
Other Standard Identifier
40021530710
Research Call Number
MFL 13-4480
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