Henry James goes to the movies
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Henry James goes to the movies
University Press of Kentucky, c2002
Available at 30 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-365) and index
Contents of Works
- The story held us : The turn of the screw from Henry James to Jack Clayton / Anthony J. Mazzella
- Re-examining Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller / Peggy McCormack
- The tie of a common aversion : sexual tensions in Henry James's The other house / Priscilla L. Walton
- Mourning, nostalgia, and melacholia : unlocking the secrets of Truffaut's The green room / Matthew F. Jordan
- Still me(n) : Superman meets the Bostonians / Leland S. Person
- Conscious observation : Jane Campion's Portrait of a lady / Nancy Bentley
- Prospects of entertainment : film adaptations of Washington Square / Julie H. Rivkin
- Her ancient faculty of silence : Catherine Sloper's ways of being in James's Washington Square and two film adaptations / Karen Michele Chandler
- Ambassadors from an imaginary "Elsewhere" : cinematic convention and the Jamesian sensibility / Alan Nadel
- Cultural capitalism and the "James formation" / Marc Bousquet
- Content or costume? : James as cultural capital / Dale M. Bauer
- Hallucinations of intimacy : the Henry James films / Dianne F. Sadoff
- A Henry James filmography / J. Sarah Koch
- Bibliography of critical work on James and film / Sarah Edgington and Steven Wexler
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Why has a nineteenth-century author with an elitist reputation proved so popular with directors as varied as William Wyler, Francois Truffaut, and James Ivory? A partial answer lies in the way many of Henry James's recurring themes still haunt us: the workings of power, the position of women in society, the complexities of sexuality and desire.
Susan Griffin has assembled fifteen of the world's foremost authorities on Henry James to examine both the impact of James on film and the impact of film on James. Anthony Mazella traces the various adaptations of The Turn of the Screw, from novel to play to opera to film. Peggy McCormack examines the ways the personal lives of Peter Bogdanovich and then-girlfriend Cybill Shepherd influenced critical reaction to Daisy Miller (1974). Leland Person points out the consequences of casting Christopher Reeve -- then better known as Superman -- in The Bostonians (1984) during the conservative political context of the first Reagan presidency. Nancy Bentley defends Jane Campion's anachronistic reading of Portrait of a Lady (1996) as being more "authentic" than the more common period costume dramas. Dale Bauer observes James's influence on such films as Next Stop, Wonderland (1998) and Notting Hill (1999). Marc Bousquet explores the ways Wings of the Dove (1997) addresses the economic and cultural situations of Gen-X viewers. Other fascinating essays as well as a complete filmography and bibliography of work on James and film round out the collection.
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