| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 257 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Filming an unfinished novel : The last tycoon / Robert Sklar -- Texts behind The killers / Thomas Leitch -- Day of the Locust : 1939 and 1975 / Christopher Ames -- Ship of Fools : from novel to film / Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. -- Intruder in the dust and the southern community / Mark Royden Winchell -- Dramatizing The member of the wedding / McKay Jenkins -- Film and narration : two versions of Lolita / Robert Stam -- World War II through the lens of Vietnam : adapting Slaughterhouse-Five to film / William Rodney Allen -- John Huston's Wise Blood / Matthew Bernstein -- Genre and authorship in David Cronenberg's Naked lunch / Steffen Hantke -- Screening Raymond Carver : Robert Altman's Short cuts / Robert Kolker -- Color purple : translating the African-American novel for Hollywood / Allen Woll -- Specter of history : filming memory in Beloved / Marc C. Conner -- Filming the spiritual landscape of James Jones's The thin red line / R. Barton Palmer |
| Summary |
The essays in this collection analyse major adaptations of twentieth-century American fiction, with production stills and full filmographies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Includes filmography |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- Film adaptations
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Motion pictures and literature -- United States
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American fiction
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Motion pictures and literature
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Romans.
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Verfilmingen.
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United States
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Verenigde Staten.
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| Genre/Form |
Film adaptations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Palmer, R. Barton, 1946-
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| LC no. |
2007296776 |
| ISBN |
0511274378 |
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9780511274374 |
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0511272758 |
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9780511272752 |
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0511273541 |
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9780511273544 |
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9780511271113 |
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0511271115 |
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9780511270888 |
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0511270887 |
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9780511275074 |
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0511275072 |
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9780511610950 |
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0511610955 |
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1280815310 |
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9781280815317 |
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9786610815319 |
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6610815313 |
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1107161061 |
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9781107161061 |
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0511321228 |
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9780511321221 |
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