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Now a Major Motion Picture

Film Adaptations of Literature and Drama
Genre and Beyond: A Film Studies Series

von: Christine Geraghty
48,99 €
Verlag:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	02.10.2007
ISBN/EAN:	9781461639626
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	232

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Titelbeschreibung

Going beyond the process of adaptation, Geraghty is more interested in the films themselves and how they draw on our sense of recall. While a film reflects its literary source, it also invites comparisons to our memories and associations with other versions of the original. For example, a viewer may watch the 2005 big-screen production of
Pride and Prejudice and remember Austen's novel as well as the BBC's 1995 television movie. Adaptations also rely on the conventions of genre, editing, acting, and sound to engage our recall—elements that many movie critics tend to forget when focusing solely on faithfulness to the written word.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

Now a Major Motion Picture is a unique look at the many sources, literary and otherwise, that influence film adaptations. Christine Geraghty subverts the idea that film adaptations of novels and plays must be faithful to the original texts. She is more interested in how, while a film reflects its literary source, it also invites comparisons to our memories and associations with other versions. Geraghty looks at a variety of adaptations, from the works of Jane Austen and Tennessee Williams to
Brokeback Mountain and the adaptation of a setting, historical New York City.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction
 Chapter 2 1 Narrative and Characterisation in Classic Adaptations:
David Copperfield,
Oliver Twist, and
Pride and Prejudice
 Chapter 3 2 Art Cinema, Authorship, and the Impossible Novel: Adaptations of Proust, Woolf, and Joyce
 Chapter 4 3 Tennessee Williams on Film: Space, Melodrama, and Stardom
 Chapter 5 4 Feminism, Authorship, and Genre: Adaptations of the Novels of Edna Ferber and Pearl S Buck
 Chapter 6 5 Revising the Western: Movement and Description in
The Last of the Mohicans(1992) and
Brokeback Mountain
 Chapter 7 6 Space, Setting, and Mobility in Old New York:
The Heiress,
The House of Mirth, and
Gangs of New York
 Chapter 8 Conclusion
 Chapter 9 Filmography
 Chapter 10 Bibliography

Autorenportrait

Christine Geraghty is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. She is the author of
Women and Soap Opera (1991) and
British Cinema in the Fifties (2000).