Now a major motion picture : film adaptations of literature and drama / Christine Geraghty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geraghty, Christine.

Series:

Genre and beyond

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film adaptations--History and criticism.

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

viii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2008]

Summary:

Going beyond the process of adoptation of literature to film, Geraghty is more interested in the films themselves and how they draw on our sense of recall. While a film reflects its literary source, it also invites comparisons to our memories of and associations with other versions of the original. For example, a viewer may watch the 2005 big-screen production of Pride and Prejudice and look back on the BBC's 1995 mini-series as well as Jane Austen's novel. Adoptations also rely on the conventions of genre editing, acting, and sound to engage with our recollections-elements that many move critics tend to forget when focusing solely on faithfulness to the written word.

Contents:

1 Narrative and Characterization in Classic Adaptations: David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Pride and Prejudice 15

2 Art Cinema, Authorship, and the Impossible Novel: Adaptations of Proust, Woolf, and Joyce 47

3 Tennessee Williams on Film: Space, Melodrama, and Stardom 73

4 Feminism, Authorship, and Genre: Adaptations of the Novels of Edna Ferber and Pearl S. Buck 103

5 Revising the Western: Movement and Description in The Last of the Mohicans and Brokeback Mountain 135

6 Space, Setting, and Mobility in Old New York: The Heiress, The House of Mirth, and Gangs of New York 167.

Notes:

Includes filmography: pages 199-202.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-211) and index.

ISBN:

9780742538207

0742538206

9780742538214

0742538214

OCLC:

137325007