A companion to literature and film

Author(s)

• Stam, Robert
• Raengo, Alessandra

Bibliographic Information

A companion to literature and film

edited by Robert Stam, Alessandra Raengo

（Blackwell companions in cultural studies, 7）

Blackwell, 2004

• : hbk
• : [pbk.]

Note

[pbk.]: "2 2006"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A Companion to Literature in Film provides state-of-the-art research on world literature, film, and the complex theoretical relationship between them. 25 essays by international experts cover the most important topics in the study of literature and film adaptations. Covers a wide variety of topics, including cultural, thematic, theoretical, and genre issues Discusses film adaptations from the birth of cinema to the present day Explores a diverse range of titles and genres, including film noir, biblical epics, and Italian and Chinese cinema

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors ix Preface xiv Acknowledgments xvi 1 Novels, Films, and the Word/Image Wars 1 Kamilla Elliott 2 Sacred Word, Profane Image: Theologies of Adaptation 23 Ella Shohat 3 Gospel Truth? From Cecil B. DeMille to Nicholas Ray 46 Pamela Grace 4 Transecriture and Narrative Mediatics: The Stakes of Intermediality 58 Andre Gaudreault and Philippe Marion 5 The Look: From Film to Novel. An Essay in Comparative Narratology 71 Francois Jost 6 Adaptation and Mis-adaptations: Film, Literature, and Social Discourses 81 Francesco Casetti 7 The Invisible Novelty: Film Adaptations in the 1910s 92 Yuri Tsivian 8 Italy and America: Pinocchio's First Cinematic Trip 112 Raffaele De Berti 9 The Intertextuality of Early Cinema: A Prologue to Fantomas 127 Tom Gunning 10 Cosmopolitan Projections: World Literature on Chinese Screens 144 Zhang Zhen 11 The Rhetoric of Interruption 164 Allen S. Weiss 12 Visualizing the Voice: Joyce, Cinema, and the Politics of Vision 171 Luke Gibbons 13 Adapting Cinema to History: A Revolution in the Making 189 Dudley Andrew 14 Photographic Verismo, Cinematic Adaptation, and the Staging of a Neorealist Landscape 205 Noa Steimatsky 15 The Devil's Parody: Horace McCoy's Appropriation and Refiguration of Two Hollywood Musicals 229 Charles Musser 16 The Sociological Turn of Adaptation Studies: The Example of Film Noir 258 R. Barton Palmer 17 Adapting Farewell, My Lovely 278 William Luhr 18 Daphne du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock 298 Richard Allen 19 Running Time: The Chronotope of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 326 Peter Hitchcock 20 From Libertinage to Eric Rohmer: Transcending "Adaptation" 343 Maria Tortajada 21 The Moment of Portraiture: Scorsese Reads Wharton 358 Brigitte Peucker 22 The Talented Poststructuralist: Hetero-masculinity, Gay Artifice, and Class Passing 368 Chris Straayer 23 From Bram Stoker's Dracula to Bram Stoker's "Dracula" 385 Margaret Montalbano 24 The Bible as Cultural Object(s) in Cinema 399 Gavriel Moses 25 All's Wells that Ends Wells: Apocalypse and Empire in The War of the Worlds 423 Julian Cornell Index 448

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Details

• NCID: BA69085332
• ISBN:
  • 9780631230533
  • 9781405177559
• LCCN: 2004017778
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Malden, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 463 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN1995.3
  • DC22 : 791.43/6
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Literature and motion pictures
  • LCSH : Film adaptations -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA44039980