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The Literary Filmography

Leonard Mustazza
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Author : Leonard Mustazza
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786424710

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From the very infancy of the film industry, filmmakers have relied heavily upon literature as the foundation for their movie material. Well-known literary works such as Dickens's A Christmas Carol and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter were adapted to film in the silent era, as were such books as Thomas Dixon's Jr.'s The Klansman, basis for the film Birth of a Nation. In recent years, Nick Hornsby's About a Boy and each of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary novels were the basis for popular movies bearing the same names. A guide to English-language works that have been adapted as theatrical and television films, this volume includes books (both fiction and non-fiction), short stories, newspaper and magazine articles and poems. Entries are arranged alphabetically by literary title with cross-listings for films made under different titles. Each entry includes the original work's title, author, year of first publication, literary prizes, and a brief plot summary. Information on film adaptation(s) of the work, including adaptation titles, director, screenwriter, principal cast and the names of the characters they portray, major awards, and availability in the most common formats (DVD, VHS), is also offered.

The Literary Filmography: Preface, A-L

Leonard Mustazza
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Author : Leonard Mustazza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114440055

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A guide to English-language works that have been adapted as theatrical and television films, this volume includes books (both fiction and non-fiction), short stories, newspaper and magazine articles and poems. Entries are arranged alphabetically by literary title with cross-listings for films made under different titles. Each entry includes the original work's title, author, year of first publication, literary prizes, and a brief plot summary. Information on film adaptation(s) of the work, including adaptation titles, director, screenwriter, principal cast and the names of the characters they portray, major awards, and availability in the most common formats (DVD, VHS), is also offered. The book is published as a set of two volumes. Replacement volumes can be obtained individually under ISBN 0-7864-2503-2 (for Volume 1) and ISBN 0-7864-2504-0 (for Volume 2).

Film and Literature

Timothy Corrigan
Film and Literature Book PDF

Author : Timothy Corrigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Motion pictures and literature
ISBN : IND:30000063900793

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This book is a wide-ranging introduction to the long history and provocative debates about the interactions between film and literature.KEY TOPICS: Film and Literature: A Reader presents essays from a variety of cultures that address the major issues in the exchange between film and literature since the beginning of the twentieth century. The book provides landmark discussions of different genres and practices (such as poetry and movies or film scripts as literature) through writings by such figures as Vachel Lindsay, Walter Benjamin, and Alexander Astruc. It presents a concise, but detailed history of film and literature and the critical terms and techniques used in film and literary analysis as well as a detailed history of the bond between film and literature, from theatrical narratives of the silent film era to recent blockbuster adaptations of Shakespeare and Jane Austen. It also features introductions to each essay and suggests how the essays may be used to analyze works involving film and literature. An essential resource for every reader interested in film.

On Film

Stephen Mulhall
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Author : Stephen Mulhall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134068579

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In this significantly expanded new edition of his acclaimed exploration of the four Alien movies, Stephen Mulhall adds several new chapters on Steven Spielberg’s Mission: Impossible trilogy and Minority Report. The first part of the book discusses the four Alien movies. Mulhall argues that the sexual significance of the aliens themselves, and of Ripley’s resistance to them, takes us deep into the question of what it is to be human. At the heart of the book is a highly original and controversial argument that films themselves can philosophize. Mulhall then applies his interpretative model to another sequence of contemporary Hollywood movies: the Mission: Impossible series. A brand new chapter is devoted to each of the three films in the series, and to other films by the relevant directors that cast light on their individual contribution to it. In this discussion, the nature of television becomes as central a concern as the nature of cinema; and the shift in generic focus from science fiction to thriller also makes room for a detailed reading of Spielberg’s Minority Report. On Film, Second Edition is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy, film theory and cultural studies, and in the way philosophy can enrich our understanding of cinema.

Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Literature of the U.S.A.

Clarence Gohdes,Sanford E. Marovitz
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Author : Clarence Gohdes,Sanford E. Marovitz
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822305925

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Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Literature of the U.S.A. by Clarence Gohdes,Sanford E. Marovitz Pdf

This fifth revised edition features approximately 1,900 items, most of which are annotated. It addresses several interdisciplinary studies that have become prominent in the last decade, especially on popular culture, racial and other minorities, Native Americans and Chicanos, and literary regionalism. It allots more space to computer aids, science fiction, children's literature, literature of the sea, film and literature, and linguistic studies of American English and includes a new section on psychology. The appendix lists the biography of each of 135 deceased American authors. ISBN 0-8223-0592-5 : $22.50 (For use only in the library).

Now a Major Motion Picture

Christine Geraghty
Now a Major Motion Picture Book PDF

Author : Christine Geraghty
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0742538214

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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.

Movies as Literature

Kathryn Stout
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Author : Kathryn Stout
Publisher : Design-A-Study
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781891975097

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This complete, one-year high school English course uses classic movies on video to introduce and study the elements of literary analysis. Student discussion and composition questions are provided for each of 17 lessons, several of which can also be used to supplement studies in grades 7 and 8. Also included are an extensive teacher s guide/answer key, plot summaries, glossary of literary terms, and final exam. This course will not only give students the tools to appreciate good books more fully, but will equip them with the ability to discern underlying messages in movies rather than simply absorb them. The following 17 movies are covered by Movies As Literature: Shane, Friendly Persuasion, The Quiet Man, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Music Man, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Maltese Falcon, Rear Window, Emma, The Philadelphia Story, The Journey of August King, To Kill A Mockingbird, A Raisin in the Sun, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Henry V, A Man For All Seasons, and Chariots of Fire."

Rethinking the Novel/Film Debate

Kamilla Elliott
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Author : Kamilla Elliott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521818443

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African Film and Literature

Lindiwe Dovey
African Film and Literature Book PDF

Author : Lindiwe Dovey
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780231147545

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Analyzing a range of South African and West African films inspired by African and non-African literature, Lindiwe Dovey identifies a specific trend in contemporary African filmmaking-one in which filmmakers are using the embodied audiovisual medium of film to offer a critique of physical and psychological violence. Against a detailed history of the medium's savage introduction and exploitation by colonial powers in two very different African contexts, Dovey examines the complex ways in which African filmmakers are preserving, mediating, and critiquing their own cultures while seeking a united vision of the future. More than merely representing socio-cultural realities in Africa, these films engage with issues of colonialism and postcolonialism, "updating" both the history and the literature they adapt to address contemporary audiences in Africa and elsewhere. Through this deliberate and radical re-historicization of texts and realities, Dovey argues that African filmmakers have developed a method of filmmaking that is altogether distinct from European and American forms of adaptation.

The History of British Literature on Film, 1895-2015

Greg M. Colón Semenza,Bob Hasenfratz
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Author : Greg M. Colón Semenza,Bob Hasenfratz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781623561871

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The History of British Literature on Film, 1895-2015 by Greg M. Colón Semenza,Bob Hasenfratz Pdf

From The Death of Nancy Sykes (1897) to The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) and beyond, cinematic adaptations of British literature participate in a complex and fascinating history. The History of British Literature on Film, 1895-2015 is the only comprehensive narration of cinema's 100-year-old love affair with British literature. Unlike previous studies of literature and film, which tend to privilege particular authors such as Shakespeare and Jane Austen, or particular texts such as Frankenstein, or particular literary periods such as Medieval, this volume considers the multiple functions of filmed British literature as a cinematic subject in its own right-one reflecting the specific political and aesthetic priorities of different national and historical cinemas. In what ways has the British literary canon authorized and influenced the history and aesthetics of film, and in what ways has filmed British literature both affirmed and challenged the very idea of literary canonicity? Seeking to answer these and other key questions, this indispensable study shows how these adaptations emerged from and continue to shape the social, artistic, and commercial aspects of film history.

Filming Shakespeare's Plays

Anthony Davies
Filming Shakespeare s Plays Book PDF

Author : Anthony Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1990-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521399130

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Shakespeare's plays provide wonderfully challenging material for the film maker. While acknowledging that dramatic experiences for theatre and cinema audiences are significantly different, this book reveals some of the special qualities of cinema's dramatic language in the film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays by four directors - Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa - each of whom has a distinctly different approach to a film representation. Davies begins his study with a comparison of theatrical and cinematic space showing that the dramatic resources of cinema are essentially spatial. The central chapters focus on Laurence Olivier's Henry V, Hamlet and Richard III; Orson Welles' Macbeth, Othello and Chimes at Midnight; Peter Brook's King Lear and Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood. Davies discusses the dramatic problems posed by the source plays for these films for the film maker and he examines how these films influenced later theatrical stagings. He concludes with an examination of the demands that distinguish the work of the Shakespearean stage actor from that of his counterpart in film.

True Things About Me

Deborah Kay Davies
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Author : Deborah Kay Davies
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847679130

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION FILM CALLED TRUE THINGS From their first encounter, late one night in an underground car park, the narrator of True Things About Me is intoxicated by a stranger who seems to overwhelm her quiet life. But beneath the surface something takes hold that will drive her to extremes of pleasure - and finally, on a cold and eerie night to face up to her fate.

Writing and Filming the Painting

Laura M. Sager Eidt
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Author : Laura M. Sager Eidt
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789042024571

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This innovative interdisciplinary study compares the uses of painting in literary texts and films. In developing a framework of four types of ekphrasis, the author argues for the expansion of the concept of ekphrasis by demonstrating its applicability as interpretive tool to films about the visual arts and artists. Analyzing selected works of art by Goya, Rembrandt, and Vermeer and their ekphrastic treatment in various texts and films, this book examines how the medium of ekphrasis affects the representation of the visual arts in order to show what the differences imply about issues such as gender roles and the function of art for the construction of a personal or social identity. Because of its highly cross-disciplinary nature, this book is of interest not only to scholars of literature and aesthetics, but also for scholars of film studies. By providing an innovative approach to discussing non-documentary films about artists, the author shows that ekphrasis is a useful tool for exploring both aesthetic concerns and ideological issues in film. This study also addresses art historians as it deals with the reception of major artists in European literature and film throughout the 20th century.

Film and the Classical Epic Tradition

Joanna Paul
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Author : Joanna Paul
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199542925

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Paul explores the relationship between films set in the ancient world and the classical epic tradition, arguing that there is a connection between the genres. Through this careful consideration of how epic manifests itself through different periods and cultures, we learn how cinema makes a claim to be a modern vehicle for a very ancient tradition.

A Companion to Literature and Film

Robert Stam,Alessandra Raengo
A Companion to Literature and Film Book PDF

Author : Robert Stam,Alessandra Raengo
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780470999110

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A Companion to Literature and Film by Robert Stam,Alessandra Raengo Pdf

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. Covers a wide variety of topics, including cultural, thematic, theoretical, and genre issues Discusses film adaptations from the birth of cinema to the present day Explores a diverse range of titles and genres, including film noir, biblical epics, and Italian and Chinese cinema