Filming Forster : the challenges in adapting E.M. Forster's novels for the screen / Earl G. Ingersoll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingersoll, Earl G., 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970--Film adaptations.

Forster, E. M.

Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970.

English fiction--Film adaptations.

English fiction.

Film adaptations--History and criticism.

Film adaptations.

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

viii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield, [2012]

Summary:

Filming Forster focuses upon the challenges of producing film adaptations of five of E. M. Forster's novels. Rather than follow the older comparative approach, which typically damned a .film for not being "faithful", to the novel, this project explores the interactive relationship between film and novel. That relationship is implicit in the title Filming Forster, rather than Forster Filmed, which would suggest a completed process. A film adaptation forever changes the novel from which it was adapted, just as a return to the novel changes the viewer's perceptions of the-film.

Adapting Forster's novels for the screen was postponed until well after the author's death in 1970 because the trustees of the author's estate fulfilled his wish that his work not be filmed. Following the appearance of David Lean's film A Passage to India in 1984, four other film adaptations were released within eight years. Perhaps the most important was the Merchant Ivory production of Maurice, based upon Forster's "gay" novel, published a year after his death. That film was among the first to approach same-sex relationships between men in a serious, respectful, and generally optimistic manner. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

The last epic: David Lean's A passage to India

A surprising success: Merchant Ivory's A room with a view

Breaking ground: Merchant Ivory's Maurice

Another Tuscany: Charles Sturridge's Where angels fear to tread

Handling an icon: Merchant Ivory's Howard's end.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611475173

1611475171

9781611475180

161147518X

OCLC:

758396135