| Description |
vi, 160 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Film/fiction ; v. 1 |
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Film/fiction ; v. 1
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| Contents |
Introduction - Pulping Fictions: Consuming Culture Across the Literature/Media Divide / Imelda Whelehan and Deborah Cartmell -- 1. 'Vanishing' Worlds: Film Adaptation and the Mystery of the Original / John O. Thompson -- 2. The Vampire Writes Back: Anne Rice and the (Re)Turn of the Author in the Field Cultural Production / Ken Gelder -- 3. Is s/he or Isn't s/he?: Screening Orlando / Nicola Shaughnessy -- 4. Feminist Sympathies Versus Masculine Backlash: Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Heidi Kaye -- 5. The Henry V Flashback: Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare / Deborah Cartmell -- 6. Consuming Middlemarch: Construction and Consumption of Nostalgia in Stamford / Jenny Rice and Carol Saunders -- 7. Pleasure and Interpretation: Film Adaptations of Angela Carter's Fiction / Catherine Neale -- 8. Capitalism Most Triumphant: Bill & Ted's Excellent History Lesson / I. Q. Hunter -- 9. Robin Hood: Men in Tights: Fitting the Tradition Snugly / Stephen Knight -- 10. Pulpmodernism: Tarantino's Affirmative Action / Peter Brooker and Will Brooker |
| Summary |
"Taking Quentin Tarantino's dictionary definition of 'pulp fiction' as its starting point, Pulping Fictions explores the unease with which film and television adaptations are often greeted, investigating the changing status of 'canonical' and 'non-canonical' texts in the increasingly blurred interface between literature and media studies." "Branagh's film of Henry V, the filming of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Angela Carter's adaptability from book to screen are examined. The transference of the grand narratives of history into theme park youth culture is explored via Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and the folk-myth rendition of Mel Brooks's 'irreverent' Robin Hood: Men in Tights. The notion of 'planning' is examined in the evolution of Neil Jordan's film of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire and the exploitation of textual/cinematic strategies is revealed in Sally Potter's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando. The BBC's decision to film Middlemarch in Stamford is considered and, concluding the volume, charges against Tarantino for exploiting the banal and vulgar tastes of mass culture are refuted in a reading of his Pulp Fiction."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Film adaptations.
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Motion pictures and literature.
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| Author |
Cartmell, Deborah.
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| LC no. |
95052785 |
| ISBN |
0745310702 (paperback) |
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0745310710 (hbk.) |
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