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A companion to literature and film / edited by Robert Stam and Alessandra Raengo.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 7.
- Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures and literature.
- Film adaptations--History and criticism.
- Film adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (465 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Companion to Literature and Film provides state-of-the-art research on world literature, film, and the complex theoretical relationship between them. Twenty-five essays by international experts cover the most important topics in the study of literature and film adaptations. Contributors explore, in a highly innovative and groundbreaking way, important topics in the field. These include:. * Key issues such as dialogism, hidden intertextuality, and adaptation as readings, critiques, and rewritings of source novels. * Cultural concerns including iconophobia and the word/image wars. * Theoretica
- Contents:
- Robert Stam Alessandra Raengo; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Novels, Films, and the Word/Image Wars; 2 Sacred Word, Profane Image: Theologies of Adaptation; 3 Gospel Truth? From Cecil B. DeMille to Nicholas Ray; 4 Transécriture and Narrative Mediatics: The Stakes of Intermediality; 5 The Look: From Film to Novel. An Essay in Comparative Narratology; 6 Adaptation and Mis-adaptations: Film, Literature, and Social Discourses; 7 The Invisible Novelty: Film Adaptations in the 1910s; 8 Italy and America: Pinocchio's First Cinematic Trip
- 9 The Intertextuality of Early Cinema: A Prologue to Fantômas10 Cosmopolitan Projections: World Literature on Chinese Screens; 11 The Rhetoric of Interruption; 12 Visualizing the Voice: Joyce, Cinema, and the Politics of Vision; 13 Adapting Cinema to History: A Revolution in the Making; 14 Photographic Verismo, Cinematic Adaptation, and the Staging of a Neorealist Landscape; 15 The Devil's Parody: Horace McCoy's Appropria
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611312640
- 9781782686064
- 1782686061
- 9781281312648
- 1281312649
- 9781405165402
- 1405165405
- 9780470999127
- 0470999128
- 9780470999110
- 047099911X
- OCLC:
- 184983752
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