Literature Through Film

Realism, Magic, and the Art of Adaptation
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0288-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 589 g

This lively and accessible textbook, written by an expert in film studies, provides a fascinating introduction to the process and art of literature-to-film adaptations.

- Provides a lively, rigorous, and clearly written account of key moments in the history of the novel from Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe up to Lolita and One Hundred Years of Solitude

- Includes diversity of topics and titles, such as Fielding, Nabokov, and Cervantes in adaptations by Welles, Kubrick, and the French New Wave

- Emphasizes both the literary texts themselves and their varied transtextual film adaptations

- Examines numerous literary trends – from the self-conscious novel to magic realism – before exploring the cinematic impact of the movement

- Reinvigorates the field of adaptation studies by examining it through the grid of contemporary theory

- Brings novels and film adaptations into the age of multiculturalism, postcoloniality, and the Internet by reflecting on their contemporary relevance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stam, Robert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustations.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

1. A Cervantic Prelude: From Don Quixote to Postmodernism.

2. Colonial and Postcolonial Classics: From Robinson Crusoe to Survivor.

3. The Self-Conscious Novel: From Henry Fielding to David Eggers.

4. The Proto-cinematic Novel: Metamorphoses of Madame Bovary.

5. Underground Man and Neurotic Narrators: From Dostoevsky to Nabakov.

6. Modernism, Adaptation, and the French New Wave.

7. Full Circle: From Cervantes to Magic Realism.

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Stam is University Professor at New York University. His many books include Film Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell, 2000), Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (with Ella Shohat, 1994), and Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism and Film (1989). With Toby Miller, he is the editor of Film and Theory (Blackwell, 2000) and The Blackwell Companion to Film Theory (2000).