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Twentieth-century American fiction on screen / edited by R. Barton Palmer.
Van Pelt Library PS374.M55 T94 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--Film adaptations.
- American fiction.
- Genre:
- Film adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- 20th-century American fiction on screen
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- The essays in this collection analyze major film adaptations of twentieth-century American fiction, from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The last Tycoon to Toni Morrison's Beloued. Combining cinematic and literary approaches, this volume explores the adaptation process from conception through production and reception Written in a lively and accessible style, the book includes production stills and full filmographies. Together with its companion volume on nineteenth-century fiction, the volume offers a comprehensive account of the rich tradition of American literature on screen.
- Contents:
- 1 Filming an unfinished novel: The Last Tycoon / Robert Sklar 8
- 2 The texts behind The Killers / Thomas Leitch 26
- 3 The Day of the Locust: 1939 and 1975 / Christopher Ames 45
- 4 Ship of Fools: from novel to film / Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. 65
- 5 Intruder in the Dust and the southern community / Mark Royden Winchell 78
- 6 Dramatizing The Member of the Wedding / McKay Jenkins 90
- 7 Film and narration: two versions of Lolita / Robert Stam 106
- 8 World War II through the lens of Vietnam: adapting Slaughterhouse-Five to film / William Rodney Allen 127
- 9 John Huston's Wise Blood / Matthew Bernstein 139
- 10 Genre and authorship in David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch / Steffen Hantke 164
- 11 Screening Raymond Carver: Robert Altman's Short Cuts / Robert Kolker 179
- 12 The Color Purple: translating the African-American novel for Hollywood / Allen Woll 191
- 13 The specter of history: filming memory in Beloved / Marc C. Conner 202
- 14 Filming the spiritual landscape of James Jones's The Thin Red Line / R. Barton Palmer 217.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes filmography.
- ISBN:
- 0521834449
- 0521542308
- 9780521834445
- 9780521542302
- OCLC:
- 69484205
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