Introduction / R. Barton Palmer -- A very American fable: the making of a Mohicans adaptation / Martin Barker and Roger Sabin -- Romancing the letter: screening a Hawthorne classic / Michael Dunne -- The movies in the Rue Morgue: adapting Edgar Allan Poe for the screen / Paul Woolf -- Readapting Uncle Tom's Cabin / Stephen Railton -- Screening authorship: Little Women on screen 1933-1994 / Deborah Cartmell and Judy Simons -- Melville's Moby Dick and Hollywood / David Lavery -- Screening male sentimental power in Ben-Hur / Marcia L. Pentz-Harris, Linda Seger, and R. Barton Palmer -- John Huston's The red badge of courage / Jakob Lothe -- Translating Daisy Miller / Douglas McFArland -- Jane Campion's The portrait of a lady / Harriet Margolis and Janet Hughes -- The Europeans-and the Americans / Brian McFarlane -- Sister Carrie becomes Carrie / Stephen C. Brennan -- Hollywood and The sea-wolf / Tony Williams -- An untypical typicality: screening Owen Wister's The Virginian / R. Barton Palmer
Summary
An up-to-date illustrated survey of the important films based on, or inspired by, nineteenth-century American fiction