From fidelity to history : film adaptations as cultural events in the twentieth century / Anne-Marie Scholz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scholz, Anne-Marie.

Series:

Transatlantic Perspectives

Transatlantic perspectives ; 11

Transatlantic Perspectives ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film adaptations--History and criticism.

Film adaptations.

Motion pictures and literature.

Motion pictures and history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Scholarly approaches to the relationship between literature and film, ranging from the traditional focus upon fidelity to more recent issues of intertextuality, all contain a significant blind spot: a lack of theoretical and methodological attention to adaptation as an historical and transnational phenomenon. This book argues for a historically informed approach to American popular culture that reconfigures the classically defined adaptation phenomenon as a form of transnational reception. Focusing on several case studies- including the films Sense and Sensibility (1995) and The Portrait of a

Contents:

Introduction

Adaptation as reception: how film historians can contribute to the "literature to film" debates

Post Cold War readings of the receptions of Anglo-American Hollywood. Adaptations in Cold War West Germany: 1950-1963

"Eine revolution des films": The third man (1949), the Cold War, and alternatives to nationalism and "coca-colonization" in Europe

The bridge on the River Kwai (1957) revisited: combat cinema, American culture and the German past

"Josef K von 1963": Orson Welles' "Americanized" version of the the trial and the changing functions of the "Kafkaesque" in Cold War West Germany

Postfeminist relations between "classic" texts and Hollywood film adaptations in the United States in the 1990s: Introduction. "Jane-mania": the Jane Austen film boom in the 1990s

Thelma and sense and Louise and sensibility: challenging dichotomies in women's history through film and literature

"Jamesian proportions": the Henry James film boom in the 1990s

Conclusion

A case for the "case study": the future of adaptation studies as a branch of transnational film history.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781785330346

1785330349

9780857457325

0857457322

OCLC:

855505427