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1 online resource (398 pages) |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Making Movies with Henry James; Filming James, 1961-1984; The Story ... Held Us: The Turn of the Screw from Henry James to Jack Clayton; Notes; Works Cited; Filmography; Reexamining Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller; 'Bogdanovich and Shepherd in the 1970s: A CostCy youthful Indiscretion -- 'Bogdanovich's!Ti(m: A 'SeautifuC Evocation of His Daisy; Notes; Worfe Cited; Filmography; The Tie of a Common Aversion: Sexual Tensions in Henry James's The Other House; Notes; Worlds Cited; Filmography |
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Mourning, Nostalgia, and Melancholia: Unlocking the Secrets of Truffauts The Green RoomNotes; Worlds Cited; Filmography; Still Me(n): Superman Meets The Bostonians; Notes; 'Works Cited; Filmography; Watching Isabel, Listening to Catherine; Conscious Observation: Jane Campion's Portrait of a Lady; Notes; Works Cited; Filmography; ""Prospects of Entertainment"": Film Adaptations of Washington Square; Irony, Sadomasochism, and ""Entertainment; The Heiress: Revenge as Communication; Holland's 'Washington Square: Love's Alchemy; Works Cited; Filmography |
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""Her Ancient Faculty of Silence"": Catherine Sloper's Ways of Being in James's Washington Square and Two Film Adaptation""Her Ancient Jacutty of Silence"": Catherine's Oppression and To-wer; '""You Have found a tongue, at Last"": Silence and Speech as Weapons in The Heiress; '""you Call on a Life"": Silence, Song, and Self-Development in Holland's feminist Refashioning of Catherine Sloper; Notes; Works Cited; Filmography; Getting James in the Nineties; Ambassadors from an Imaginary ""Elsewhere"": Cinematic Convention and the Jamesian Sensibility; The Tortrait of a Lady |
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The 'Wings of the 'Dove.'Washington Square; The American Century; Works Cited; Filmography; Cultural Capitalism and the James Formation -- The Actually Existing Cultural Materialism; The Importance of 'Being 'Earnest; Is Youth the New North American Working Class?; Notes; 'Works Cited; Filmography; Content or Costume? James as Cultural Capital; Campion's Symbolic Portrait; 'Wings of the Dove; Notes; Works Cited; Filmography; Hallucinations of Intimacy: The Henry James Films; 'Works Cited; Filmography; Latest James; Based on the Novel by Henry James: The Golden Bowl 2000; Notes |
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Other Works CitedFilmography; The Rift in the Loot: Cognitive Dissonance for the Reader of Merchant Ivory's The Golden Bowl; Notes; Works Cited; Filmography; The James Films and the Critical Reactions; A Henry James Filmography; Bibliography of Critical Work on James and Film; List of Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Why has a nineteenth-century author with an elitist reputation proved so popular with directors as varied as William Wyler, François Truffaut, and James Ivory? A partial answer lies in the way many of Henry James's recurring themes still haunt us: the workings of power, the position of women in society, the complexities of sexuality and desire. Susan Griffin has assembled fifteen of the world's foremost authorities on Henry James to examine both the impact of James on film and the impact of film on James. Anthony Mazella traces the various adaptations of The Turn of the Screw, from novel to pl |
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Print version record |
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James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Film adaptations
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James, Henry, 1843-1916 fast |
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American fiction -- Film adaptations
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Film adaptations -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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American fiction
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Film adaptations
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Film adaptations
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Griffin, Susan M., 1953-
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| ISBN |
9780813159560 |
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0813159563 |
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