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Classics in Film and Fiction
Deborah Cartmell | I. Q. Hunter | Heidi Kaye | Imelda Whelehan
(2000)
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Abstract
This book negotiates the notion of a 'classic' in film and fiction, exploring the growing interface and the blurring of boundaries between literature and film. Taking the problematic term 'classic' as its focus, the contributors consider both canonical literary and film texts, questioning whether classic status in one domain transfers it to another.
Classics in Film and Fiction looks at a wide range of texts and their adaptations. Authors discussed are Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, Henry James, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Miller, Truman Capote and Lewis Carroll. Book to film adaptations analysed include Jane Eyre, The Crucible, The Tempest and Alice in Wonderland. The collection also evaluates the term 'classic' in a wider context, including a comparison of Joyce's Ulysses with Hitchcock's Rear Window. Throughout, the contributors challenge the dichotomy between high culture and pop culture.
'An essential volume for readers interested in the theory and practice of film adaptation and canon formation'
SCOPE: An Online Journal of Film Studies
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | v | ||
| Notes on Contributors | vii | ||
| Introduction: Classics Across the Film/ Literature Divide | 1 | ||
| Notes | 10 | ||
| Further Reading | 11 | ||
| 1. 'If Only You Could See What I've Seen with Your Eyes': Blade Runner and La Symphonie Pastorale | 14 | ||
| Notes | 31 | ||
| 2. Classic Shakespeare for All: Forbidden Planet and Prospero's Books, Two Screen Adaptations of The Tempest | 34 | ||
| Notes | 50 | ||
| 3. The Red and the Blue: Jane Eyre in the 1990s | 54 | ||
| Notes | 69 | ||
| 4. Transcultural Aesthetics and the Film Adaptations of Henry James | 70 | ||
| The American | 75 | ||
| The Portrait of a Lady | 79 | ||
| The Wings of the Dove | 84 | ||
| Notes | 88 | ||
| 5. 'Hystorical' Puritanism: Contemporary Cinematic Adaptations of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Arthur Mil | 93 | ||
| Notes | 110 | ||
| 6. Mrs Dalloway and Orlando: The Subject of Time and Generic Transactions | 116 | ||
| Notes | 129 | ||
| 7. 'Desire Projected Itself Visually': Watching Death in Venice | 137 | ||
| Notes | 152 | ||
| 8. Leopold Bloom Walks and Jimmy Stewart Stares: On Motion, Genre and the Classic | 157 | ||
| Notes | 173 | ||
| 9. Trial and Error: Combinatory Fidelity in Two Versions of Franz Kafka's The Trial | 176 | ||
| Notes | 191 | ||
| 10. In Cold Blood : Yellow Birds, New Realism and Killer Culture | 194 | ||
| Notes | 205 | ||
| 11. Home by Tea- time: Fear of Imagination in Disney's Alice in Wonderland | 207 | ||
| Notes | 223 | ||
| Index | 229 | ||
| 2001 A Space Odyssey [Kubrick] 43 | 43 | ||
| acting, stage and screen 96-7 | 96 | ||
| actors | 58 | ||
| foreign 58 | 58 |