Mccarthy and the coens : the novel versus the film no country for old men : the moral framework of the novel and the film / Inese Vicaka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vicaka, Inese, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Germany.

Motion pictures.

Criminal behavior--Germany--Drama.

Criminal behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (98 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hamburg, Germany : Anchor Academic Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers an original perspective on the narrative in the film and the novel No Country for Old Men, it also gives a good account on the issue of fidelity that plays an important role in the analysis of the relationship between the film adaptation and its source text, observing whether the Coens have not eradicated the novel's complex and allegorical essence. The narrative analysis in the book as well involves an observation of the narrator's point-of-view and its reliability. Besides, the book undeniably proves that the relation of narrative time and narrative space is vital in the com

Contents:

McCarthy and the Coens: The Novel versus the Film No Country for Old Men; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; 1. LITERATURE REVIEW; 1.1 Cormac McCarthy and the Coen brothers; 1.2 Screen adaptation; 1.3 Narratalogy:overview; 1.4 Relationship of film and literary narrative; 1.5 Time-space narrative; 1.6 The western genre in text and film; 2. FILM ADAPTATION - RE-IMAGINING A LITERARY NARRATIVE; 2.1 Intertextuality; 2.2 Fidelity of film adaptation; 3. LITERARY AND FILM NARRATIVE AS A MACROSTRUCTURE; 3.1 Narration and a narrator; 4. NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE; 4.1 Focalization in literary narrative

4.2 Focalization in film narrative5. TIME-SPACE NARRATIVE IN LITERATURE AND CINEMA; 5.1 Visual regime and narrative rhythm; 5.2 On the frontiers of mise-en-scène; 6. HISTORY AND CONVENTIONS OF THE WESTERN GENRE; 6.1 Iconographic elements of the western; 6.2 Gender roles in the western genre; 7. ADAPTATION OF THE FILM NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN; 7.1 Transfer of the intertexts; 7.2 Fidelity to the source text; 8. NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION IN NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN -THE NOVEL AND THE FILM; 8.1 The narration and the narrators; 8.2 The narrative perspective and the characters

9. FOCALIZATION IN NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN9.1 Focalization in the novel; 9.2 Focalization in the film; 10. NARRATIVE TIME AND SPACE IN NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN; 10.1 Mise-en-scène at work; 10.2. Visual regime in the film; 11. GENRE AND GENDER IN NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN; 11.1 The iconographic elements of the genre; 11.2 Gender roles in the genre; CONCLUSIONS; THESES; SOURCES; APPENDIX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 14, 2014).

ISBN:

3-95489-666-4

OCLC:

871779775