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Title Classics in film and fiction / edited by Deborah Cartmell, I.Q. Hunter, Heidi Kaye and Imelda Whelehan
Published London ; Sterling, Virginia : Pluto Press, 2000
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Description 1 online resource (x, 240 pages)
Series Film/fiction ; volume 5
Film/fiction ; v. 5.
Contents Introduction : classics across the film/literature divide / Heidi Kaye and Imelda Whelehan -- "If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes" : Blade Runner and La Symphonie Pastorale / Nick Peim -- Classic Shakespeare for all : Forbidden Planet and Prospero's Books, two screen adaptations of The Tempest / Sara Martin -- The red and the blue : Jane Eyre in the 1990s / Lisa Hopkins -- Transcultural aesthetics and the film adaptations of Henry James / Martin Halliwell -- "Hystorical" puritanism : contemporary cinematic adaptations of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Arthur Miller's The Crucible / Sergio Rizzo -- Mrs Dalloway and Orlando : the subject of time and generic transactions / Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps -- "Desire projected itself visually" : watching Death in Venice / Stuart Burrows -- Leopold Bloom walks and Jimmy Stewart stares : on motion, genre and the classic / Kay Young -- Trial and error : combinatory fidelity in two versions of Franz Kafka's The Trial / Paul M. Malone -- In Cold Blood : yellow birds, new realism and killer culture / Paul Wells -- Home by tea-time : fear of imagination in Disney's Alice in Wonderland / Deborah Ross
Summary The contributors to this volume negotiate the notion of a classic in film and fiction, exploring the growing interface and the blurring of boundaries between literature and film. They consider both canonical literary and film text
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Film adaptations -- History and criticism
Motion pictures and literature.
Canon (Literature)
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
Canon (Literature)
Film adaptations
Motion pictures and literature
Literatur
Verfilmung
Verfilmingen.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Cartmell, Deborah, editor.
ISBN 9780585426723
0585426724
9781849645096
1849645094