Film adaptation and its discontents : from Gone with the wind to The passion of the Christ / Thomas...
Film adaptation and its discontents : from Gone with the wind to The passion of the Christ / Thomas...
Film adaptation and its discontents : from Gone with the wind to The passion of the Christ / Thomas Leitch.
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Baltimore, Md. ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N791.436/50
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English
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xi, 354 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Literature versus literacy -- 2. One-reel epics -- 3. The word made film -- 4. Entry-level Dickens -- 5. Between adaptation and allusion -- 6. Exceptional fidelity -- 7. Traditions of quality -- 8. Streaming pictures -- 9. The hero with a hundred faces -- 10. The adapter as auteur -- 11. Postlite...
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Baltimore, Md. ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
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Maryland
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2007.
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"Unlike most books on film adaptation - which often focus on a series of close one-to-one comparisons between specific films and canonical novels - this volume identifies and investigates a far wider array of problems posed by the process of moving from text to screen." "Beginning with an examination of why adaptation study has so often supported t...
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Film adaptation and its discontents : from Gone with the wind to The passion of the Christ / Thomas Leitch.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N791.436/50
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9780801885655 (hbk.) :
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791.436
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991023138739702626
