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Literature and Film
A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation
Robert Stam (Edited by), Alessandra Raengo (Edited by)
9780631230557, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 9 September 2004
384 pages
24.6 x 17.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.662 kg
“Stam and Raengo's Literature and Film offers a wonderful collection of approaches to the multifaceted and sometimes contradictory relationship between the written word and the filmic image, bringing into the discussion a refreshing series of examples drawn from international and minority cinemas.” Richard Pea, Columbia University
Literature and Film is a cornucopia of vibrant essays that chart the history and confluence of literature and film. It explores in detail a wide and international spectrum of novels and adaptations, bringing together the very latest scholarship in the field.
List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction: The Theory and Practice of Adaptation 1 1 Improvements and Reparations at Mansfield Park 53 2 Keeping the Carcass in Motion: Adaptation and Transmutations of the National in The Last of the Mohicans 71 3 The Discreet Charm of the Leisure Class: Terence Davies’s The House of Mirth 86 4 In Search of Adaptation: Proust and Film 100 5 The Grapes of Wrath: Thematic Emphasis through Visual Style 111 6 Cape Fear and Trembling: Familial Dread 126 7 The Carnival of Repression: German Left-wing Politics and The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum 148 8 Serial Time: Bluebeard in Stepford 163 9 Boyz N the Hood Chronotopes: Spike Lee, Richard Price, and the Changing Authorship of Clockers 191 10 Defusing the English Patient 208 11 Carnivals and Goldfish: History and Crisis in the Butcher Boy 233 12 Passion or Heartburn? The Uses of Humor in Esquivel’s and Arau’s Like Water for Chocolate 252 13 Beloved: The Adaptation of an American Slave Narrative 272 14 Oral Traditions, Literature, and Cinema in Africa 295 15 Memory and History in the Politics of Adaptation: Revisiting the Partition of India in Tamas 313 16 The Written Scene: Writers as Figures of Cinematic Redemption 331 Index 343
Robert Stam
Tim Watson
Jacquelyn Kilpatrick
Richard Porton
Melissa Anderson
Vivian C. Sobchack
Kirsten Thompson
Alexandra Seibel
Bliss Cua Lim
Paula J. Massood
Patrick Deer
Jessica Scarlata
Dianna C. Niebylski
Mia Mask
Mbye Cham
Ranjani Mazumdar
Paul Arthur
Subject Areas: Society & culture: general [JF]
