Henry James on the stage and screen / edited by John Bradley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bradley, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

James, Henry, 1843-1916--Dramatic works.

James, Henry.

James, Henry, 1843-1916--Film adaptations.

James, Henry, 1843-1916.

Drama.

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

264 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Macmillan, 2000.

Summary:

In the 1890s, when Henry James tried to achieve fame and financial security by turning to the theater, he was unceremoniously booed off the stage. Since the 1940s and '50s his fiction has nevertheless been consistently interpreted by composers and film directors, culminating in the recent film adaptations of his novels by Merchant-Ivory, Jane Campion, and Iain Softley. "Henry James on Stage and Screen" traces this historical development.

Contents:

1. Henry James on Stage: 'That Sole Intensity which the Theatre can Produce' / Sheldon M. Novick 1

2. 'The Master's Voice': Henry James and Opera / Michael Halliwell 23

3. Henry James: Varieties of Cinematic Experience / Philip Horne 35

4. The End of Embroidery: from Washington Square to The Heiress / Peter Swaab 56

5. Ceremonies of Innocence: Men, Boys and Women in The Turn of the Screw / Michelle Deutsch 72

6. Frank and Jim Go Boating: Henry James and the French New Wave / David Van Leer 84

7. Black and White and Shades of Grey: Ambiguity in The Innocents / Val Wilson 103

8. Enduring Ephemera: James Cellan Jones, Henry James and the BBC / Neil Berry 119

9. Framing the 'Sketch': Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller / David Cross 127

10. Marriage, Influence and Deception in Merchant-Ivory's The Europeans and The Bostonians / Elizabeth Brake 143

11. 'Exquisite Taste': the Recent Henry James Films as Middle-brow Culture / Mark Eaton 157

12. The Consciousness on the Cutting Room Floor: Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady / Michael Anesko 177

13. For Mature Audiences: Sex, Gender and Recent Film Adaptations of Henry James's Fiction / John Carlos Rowe 190

14. How to Do Things to Words: Making Language Immaterial in The Wings of the Dove / Marcia Ian 212

15. Portraits of Lady Chatterleys: Jamesian Triangles, Lawrencian Eros and the Triumph of Cinematic Adaptation in The Wings of the Dove / Richard A. Kaye 240.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0333792149

OCLC:

43581496