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Film adaptation and its discontents : from Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ / Thomas Leitch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leitch, Thomas M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Film adaptations--History and criticism.
- Film adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The range of films studied, from silent Shakespeare to Sherlock Holmes to The Lord of the Rings, is as broad as the problems that come under review.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Literature versus Literacy
- 2 One-Reel Epics
- 3 The Word Made Film
- 4 Entry-Level Dickens
- 5 Between Adaptation and Allusion
- 6 Exceptional Fidelity
- 7 Traditions of Quality
- 8 Streaming Pictures
- 9 The Hero with a Hundred Faces
- 10 The Adapter as Auteur
- 11 Postliterary Adaptation
- 12 Based on a True Story
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-338) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9187-6
- 1-4356-9256-X
- OCLC:
- 300052317
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