| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 247 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Adaptations : the contemporary dilemmas / Imelda Whelehan -- From text to screen : introduction / Deborah Cartmell -- The Shakespeare on screen industry / Deborah Cartmell -- Conservative Austen, radical Austen : Sense and sensibility from text to screen / Julian North -- From Emma to Clueless : taste, pleasure and the scene of history / Esther Sonnet -- Imagining the puritan body : the 1995 cinematic version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter / Roger Bromley -- Four Little women : three films and a novel / Pat Kirkham and Sarah Warren -- Will Hollywood never learn? David Cronenberg's Naked lunch / Nicholas Zurbrugg -- Adapting the Holocaust : Schindler's list, intellectuals and public knowledge / Mark Rawlinson -- Speaking out : the transformations of Trainspotting / Derek Paget -- From screen to text and multiple adaptations : introduction / Deborah Cartmell -- Orlando : coming across the divide / Sharon Ouditt -- Jane Campion and the limits of literary cinema / Ken Gelder -- The wrath of the original cast : translating embodied television characters to other media / Ina Rae Hark -- Batman : one life, many faces / Will Brooker -- 'Thou art translated' : analysing animated adaptation / Paul Wells -- 'A doggy fairy tale' : the film metamorphoses of The hundred and one dalmatians / Imelda Whelehan |
| Summary |
Adaptations considers the theoretical and practical issues surrounding the adaptation of a text into a film, and also looks at the reverse process - the novelization of successful movies. The history of Shakespeare on film is included |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-238) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Film adaptations.
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Motion pictures and literature.
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ART -- Film & Video.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Film adaptations
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Motion pictures and literature
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Literatur
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Verfilmung
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Letterkunde.
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Verfilmingen.
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Bewerkingen.
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Cinéma et littérature.
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Adaptations cinématographiques.
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| Genre/Form |
Film adaptations
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Film adaptations.
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Adaptations cinématographiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cartmell, Deborah
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Whelehan, Imelda, 1960-
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| LC no. |
98049576 |
| ISBN |
9781136219597 |
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1136219595 |
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1299697488 |
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9781299697485 |
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9781315006192 |
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1315006197 |
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0415167388 |
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9780415167383 |
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