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A Companion to Literature and Film
Robert Stam (Edited by), R Stam (Author), Alessandra Raengo (Edited by)
9781405177559, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 11 December 2007
480 pages
24.8 x 17.4 x 2.6 cm, 0.835 kg
“This volume stands as a model for consolidating studies of film and literature. It demonstrates that this field of intellectual inquiry, as it has developed over the last 15 years, encompasses the highbrow and the low; first and third world subject matter; issues of audience as well as authorship; and a commitment to interdisciplinarity. This collection will be useful for all kinds of readers: scholars, undergraduates, and all those who take seriously the pleasures provided by movies and novels.” “To anyone believing the discussion of novel-into-film had been exhausted a generation ago, A Companion to Literature and Film will come as a welcome surprise. Each of the twenty-five brilliantly argued case studies shows a level of conceptual clarity and interdisciplinary range that is astonishing. Scholars will find that this book bristles with ideas, while newcomers to the debates have an indispensable and expert guide.”
Eric Smoodin, University of California at Davis
Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam
A Companion to Literature in Film provides state-of-the-art research on world literature, film, and the complex theoretical relationship between them. 25 essays by international experts cover the most important topics in the study of literature and film adaptations.
List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors ix Preface xiv Acknowledgments xvi 1 Novels, Films, and the Word/Image Wars 1 2 Sacred Word, Profane Image: Theologies of Adaptation 23 3 Gospel Truth? From Cecil B. DeMille to Nicholas Ray 46 4 Transécriture and Narrative Mediatics: The Stakes of Intermediality 58 5 The Look: From Film to Novel. An Essay in Comparative Narratology 71 6 Adaptation and Mis-adaptations: Film, Literature, and Social Discourses 81 7 The Invisible Novelty: Film Adaptations in the 1910s 92 8 Italy and America: Pinocchio’s First Cinematic Trip 112 9 The Intertextuality of Early Cinema: A Prologue to Fantômas 127 10 Cosmopolitan Projections: World Literature on Chinese Screens 144 11 The Rhetoric of Interruption 164 12 Visualizing the Voice: Joyce, Cinema, and the Politics of Vision 171 13 Adapting Cinema to History: A Revolution in the Making 189 14 Photographic Verismo, Cinematic Adaptation, and the Staging of a Neorealist Landscape 205 15 The Devil’s Parody: Horace McCoy’s Appropriation and Refiguration of Two Hollywood Musicals 229 16 The Sociological Turn of Adaptation Studies: The Example of Film Noir 258 17 Adapting Farewell, My Lovely 278 18 Daphne du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock 298 19 Running Time: The Chronotope of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 326 20 From Libertinage to Eric Rohmer: Transcending “Adaptation” 343 21 The Moment of Portraiture: Scorsese Reads Wharton 358 22 The Talented Poststructuralist: Hetero-masculinity, Gay Artifice, and Class Passing 368 23 From Bram Stoker’s Dracula to Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” 385 24 The Bible as Cultural Object(s) in Cinema 399 25 All’s Wells that Ends Wells: Apocalypse and Empire in The War of the Worlds 423 Index 448
Kamilla Elliott
Ella Shohat
Pamela Grace
André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion
François Jost
Francesco Casetti
Yuri Tsivian
Raffaele De Berti
Tom Gunning
Zhang Zhen
Allen S. Weiss
Luke Gibbons
Dudley Andrew
Noa Steimatsky
Charles Musser
R. Barton Palmer
William Luhr
Richard Allen
Peter Hitchcock
Maria Tortajada
Brigitte Peucker
Chris Straayer
Margaret Montalbano
Gavriel Moses
Julian Cornell
Subject Areas: Society & culture: general [JF]
