Henry James goes to the movies / edited by Susan M. Griffin ; contributors, Dale M. Bauer [and eighteen others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Griffin, Susan M., 1953- editor.

Bauer, Dale M., contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Film adaptations.

American fiction.

Film adaptations--History and criticism.

Film adaptations.

James, Henry, 1843-1916--Television adaptations.

James, Henry.

James, Henry, 1843-1916--Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why has a nineteenth-century author with an elitist reputation proved so popular with directors as varied as William Wyler, François Truffaut, and James Ivory? A partial answer lies in the way many of Henry James's recurring themes still haunt us: the workings of power, the position of women in society, the complexities of sexuality and desire.Susan Griffin has assembled fifteen of the world's foremost authorities on Henry James to examine both the impact of James on film and the impact of film on James. Anthony Mazella traces the various adaptations of The Turn of the Screw, from novel

Contents:

The story held us : The turn of the screw from Henry James to Jack Clayton / Anthony J. Mazzella

Re-examining Bogdonavich's Daisy Miller / Peggy McCormack

The tie of a common aversion : sexual tensions in Henry James's The other house / Priscilla L. Walton

Mourning, nostalgia, and melacholia : unlocking the secrets of Truffaut's The green room / Matthew F. Jordan.

Still me(n) : Superman meets the Bostonians / Leland S. Person

Conscious observation : Jane Campion's Portrait of a lady / Nancy Bentley

Prospects of entertainment : film adaptations of Washington Square / Julie H. Rivkin

Her ancient faculty of silence : Catherine Sloper's ways of being in James's Washington Square and two film adaptations / Karen Michele Chandler

Ambassadors from an imaginary "Elsewhere" : cinematic convention and the Jamesian sensibility / Alan Nadel

Cultural capitalism and the "James formation" / Marc Bousquet

Content or costume? : James as cultural capital / Dale M. Bauer

Hallucinations of intimacy : the Henry James films / Dianne F. Sadoff

A Henry James filmography / J. Sarah Koch

Bibliography of critical work on James and film / Sarah Edgington and Steven Wexler.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and filmographies at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813185415

0813185416

9780813159560

0813159563

OCLC:

606659240