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Nineteenth-century American fiction on screen / edited by R. Barton Palmer.
Van Pelt Library PN1997.85 .N54 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--19th century--Film adaptations.
- American fiction.
- Film adaptations--History and criticism.
- Film adaptations.
- Genre:
- Film adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- 19th-century American fiction on screen
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- The fourteen essays collected here provide an up-to-date survey of the important films based on, or inspired by, nineteenth-century American fiction, from James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans to Owen Wister's The Virginian. Written in a lively and accessible style, the book includes production stills and full filmographies. Together with its companion volume on twentieth-century fiction, the volume offers a comprehensive account of the rich tradition of American literature on screen.
- Contents:
- Introduction / R. Barton Palmer
- A very American fable: the making of a Mohicans adaptation / Martin Barker and Roger Sabin
- Romancing the letter: screening a Hawthorne classic / Michael Dunne
- The movies in the Rue Morgue: adapting Edgar Allan Poe for the screen / Paul Woolf
- Readapting Uncle Tom's Cabin / Stephen Railton
- Screening authorship: Little Women on screen 1933-1994 / Deborah Cartmell and Judy Simons
- Melville's Moby Dick and Hollywood / David Lavery
- Screening male sentimental power in Ben-Hur / Marcia L. Pentz-Harris, Linda Seger, and R. Barton Palmer
- John Huston's The red badge of courage / Jakob Lothe
- Translating Daisy Miller / Douglas McFArland
- Jane Campion's The portrait of a lady / Harriet Margolis and Janet Hughes
- The Europeans-and the Americans / Brian McFarlane
- Sister Carrie becomes Carrie / Stephen C. Brennan
- Hollywood and The sea-wolf / Tony Williams
- An untypical typicality: screening Owen Wister's The Virginian / R. Barton Palmer.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes filmography.
- ISBN:
- 0521842212
- 9780521842211
- 0521603161
- 9780521603164
- OCLC:
- 70399625
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