Filming John Fowles

Author : James Aubrey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786497645

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Filming John Fowles by James Aubrey Pdf

John Fowles wrote five compelling stories later made into motion pictures. This book examines for the first time the film and video adaptations of these stories, as well as Fowles's role in adapting his literary genius to visual media. Besides his authorship of the screenplay for The Magus (1968), Fowles was an uncredited contributor to The Collector (1965) and The French Lieutenant's Woman (1971), and to the British television adaptations The Ebony Tower and The Enigma. His unpublished short story "The Last Chapter" was adapted as a theatrical short film satirizing the James Bond novels. Few are aware that the 1997 thriller The Game was a brilliant adaptation of The Magus, or that Fowles himself acted out scenes from that novel for a Greek television documentary. This book gives deserved recognition to John Fowles as a contributor to cinema, a medium he both loved and distrusted, where his stories acquired vivid alternative lives.

Author : James Acheson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137319364

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John Fowles by James Acheson Pdf

This vibrant collection of original essays sheds new light on all of Fowles' writings, with a special focus on The French Lieutenant's Woman as the most widely studied of Fowles' works. The impressive cast of contributors offers an outstanding range of expertise on Fowles, providing fresh reassessments and new perspectives.

Author : Guido Isekenmeier,Gerd Bayer
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Essayists
ISBN : 9783643139481

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Recollecting John Fowles / Wiedererinnerungen an John Fowles by Guido Isekenmeier,Gerd Bayer Pdf

In this volume, a collector, a translator and a handful of scholars pay tribute to John Fowles, one of the most important voices in English fiction after World War II. Their contributions address The Magus, The French Lieutenant?s Woman, The Ebony Tower, Daniel Martin and the unpublished Tesserae.

Author : John Fowles
Publisher : Random House
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446402689

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Wormholes by John Fowles Pdf

Here, for the first time, is a riveting collection of Fowles's fugitive and intensely personal writings composed sinced 1963, ranging from essays and literary criticism to commentaries, autobiographical statements, memoirs and musings. Wormholes is a delicious sampling of the various matters that have plagued, preoccupied, or delighted Fowles throughout his life; it is a rich mine of essays as art and a `geography' of the mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists.

Author : John Fowles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1106577030

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The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles Pdf

Author : John Fowles
Publisher : Random House
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : 9780099282839

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The Tree by John Fowles Pdf

A series of recollections that concern both the childhood and work of the writer John Fowles. For him, the tree is the best analogue of prose fiction, symbolising the wild side of our psyche, and he stresses the importance in art of the unpredictable, the unaccountable and the intuitive.

Author : Tasha Kavanagh
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460396391

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Things We Have in Common by Tasha Kavanagh Pdf

“[A] perfectly orchestrated girl-who-cried-wolf thriller.”—The New York Times Book Review A dark, utterly compulsive novel about what happens when the warped imagination of a teenage girl turns into reality… When fifteen-year-old Yasmin—obese, obsessive and deemed a freak by her peers—sees a sinister man watching Alice Taylor from the school fence, she becomes convinced he’s planning to take her. After all, who wouldn’t want the popular and perfect Alice? Then Yasmin realizes if she can find out who he is before he acts, she’ll be the only one who can tell the police, save Alice and become Alice’s heroine. But as Yasmin discovers more about this man, her affections begin to shift. Perhaps she was wrong about him. Perhaps she doesn’t need Alice after all… And then Alice vanishes.

Author : John Fowles
Publisher : Random House
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409059493

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Daniel Martin by John Fowles Pdf

An extraordinary work of fiction, from one of the world's most exceptional writers. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JULIAN FELLOWES After graduating from Oxford, Daniel Martin moved to America and successfully pursued the dreams of many: he became a Hollywood screenwriter. But, as the years go by, Daniel grows more and more unsatisfied with the life he once coveted and the person he has become. Now Daniel has been called back to England to reconcile with a dying friend, but finds that he must also reconcile with the past and with himself. 'I find it disastrous to read any of John Fowles' books - once I pick one up, I cannot put it down so everything else gets ignored!' Judi Dench, Daily Express 'An instant masterpiece. It is a tour de force of stamina and subtlety' Daily Telegraph

Author : James R. Aubrey
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991-11-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015025286710

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John Fowles by James R. Aubrey Pdf

John Fowles, best known as the author of The French Lieutenant's Woman, has also written numerous other works--fiction as well as nonfiction. This unique reference book by James R. Aubrey lists all of Fowles's writings for the first time. It also provides a detailed biography, criticism of his work from the perspective of various disciplines, explanatory notes, a census of characters, and a comprehensive bibliography. Aubrey begins with a biography of Fowles, based on information from his writings, published and personal interviews, and correspondence. This section also includes several photographs. The next section discusses Fowles's lesser-known nonfiction work by genre--philosophy, autobiography, biography, translations, book reviews, literary and visual-art criticism, history, and social commentary. Aubrey then pulls together the fiction of John Fowles in the order it was published. For each novel or short story Aubrey provides a description of the circumstances and process of composition, summarization, discussion of its public reception, and critiques of the film, television, or stage adaptations. Critical approaches to Fowles's fiction are covered next: biographical, psychological, post-structuralist, historicist, feminist, reader-response, and formalist. The notes, census of characters, and extensive bibliography complete this reference companion. Aubrey's book will be useful for those studying Fowles and his work, and will be an excellent addition to public and academic libraries.

Author : John Fowles
Publisher : Random House
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409059851

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The Ebony Tower by John Fowles Pdf

An extraordinary work of fiction, from one of the world's most exceptional writers. A journalist visits an elderly painter and becomes intrigued by his young female companions. Four years' worth of book research is set on fire in front of a writer. A successful MP disappears without a trace. Written with stylistic innovation, this sequence of novellas exploring the nature of art echoes the themes and preoccupations of Fowles' earlier work and cements his position as a master storyteller. 'Pick up any of these stories and you won't, as they say, be able to put it down' Financial Times

Author : Eileen Warburton
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015058707368

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John Fowles by Eileen Warburton Pdf

Based on exclusive access to Fowles's 50-year private diary, personal letters, and interviews--this is the first biography of the celebrated novelist of "The French Lieutenant's Woman."

Author : John Fowles,Barry Brukoff
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0671437585

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The Enigma of Stonehenge by John Fowles,Barry Brukoff Pdf

The history and meaning of Stonehenge with photographs of the ancient monument as it is today.

Author : Jack Boozer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292783157

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Authorship in Film Adaptation by Jack Boozer Pdf

Authoring a film adaptation of a literary source not only requires a media conversion but also a transformation as a result of the differing dramatic demands of cinema. The most critical central step in this transformation of a literary source to the screen is the writing of the screenplay. The screenplay usually serves to recruit producers, director, and actors; to attract capital investment; and to give focus to the conception and production of the film project. Often undergoing multiple revisions prior to production, the screenplay represents the crucial decisions of writer and director that will determine how and to what end the film will imitate or depart from its original source. Authorship in Film Adaptation is an accessible, provocative text that opens up new areas of discussion on the central process of adaptation surrounding the screenplay and screenwriter-director collaboration. In contrast to narrow binary comparisons of literary source text and film, the twelve essays in this collection also give attention to the underappreciated role of the screenplay and film pre-production that can signal the primary intention for a film. Divided into four parts, this collection looks first at the role of Hollywood's activist producers and major auteurs such as Hitchcock and Kubrick as they worked with screenwriters to formulate their audio-visual goals. The second part offers case studies of Devil in a Blue Dress and The Sweet Hereafter, for which the directors wrote their own adapted screenplays. Considering the variety of writer-director working relationships that are possible, Part III focuses on adaptations that alter genre, time, and place, and Part IV investigates adaptations that alter stories of romance, sexuality, and ethnicity.

Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007382910

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High-Rise by J. G. Ballard Pdf

Coming in March 2016 from acclaimed director Ben Wheatley, a major motion picture adaptation of J. G. Ballard’s compelling and unnerving tale of what happens when life in a luxury apartment building descends into chaos, starring Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans and Elisabeth Moss.

Author : Michael Thorpe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015002986621

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John Fowles by Michael Thorpe Pdf

A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts. Each volume includes biographical material, an examination of recent criticism, a bibliography and a reappraisal of a major work by the writer.