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Now a major motion picture : film adaptations of literature and drama / Christine Geraghty.

Summary:

"Going beyond the process of adaptation, Geraghty is more interested in the films themselves and how they draw on our sense of recall. While a film reflects its literary source, it also invites comparisons to our memories and associations with other versions of the original. For example, a viewer may watch the 2005 big-screen production of Pride and Prejudice and remember Austen's novel as well as the BBC's 1995 television movie. Adaptations also rely on the conventions of genre, editing, acting, and sound to engage our recall - elements that many movie critics tend to forget when focusing solely on faithfulness to the written word."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9780742538207 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0742538206 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780742538214 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0742538214 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: viii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2008]
Copyright: ©2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes filmography: p. 199-202.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-211) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Narrative and characterization in classic adaptations : David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Pride and Prejudice -- 2. Art cinema, authorship, and the impossible novel : adaptations of Proust, Woolf, and Joyce -- 3. Tennessee Williams on film : space, melodrama, and stardom -- 4. Feminism, authorship, and genre : adaptations of the novels of Edna Ferber and Pearl S. Buck -- 5. Revising the Western : movement and description in The Last of the Mohicans and Brokeback Mountain -- 6. Space, setting, and mobility in Old New York : The Heiress, The House of Mirth, and Gangs of New York -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Selected bibliography -- Index -- About the author.