Stam / Raengo A Companion to Literature and Film

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-99911-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 480 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stam, Robert

Raengo, Alessandra

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Transécriture and Narrative Mediatics: The Stakes ofIntermediality 58
André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion
5 The Look: From Film to Novel. An Essay in ComparativeNarratology 71
François Jost
6 Adaptation and Mis-adaptations: Film, Literature, and SocialDiscourses 81
Francesco Casetti
7 The Invisible Novelty: Film Adaptations in the 1910s 92
Yuri Tsivian
8 Italy and America: Pinocchio's First Cinematic Trip112
Raffaele De Berti
9 The Intertextuality of Early Cinema: A Prologue toFantômas 127
Tom Gunning
10 Cosmopolitan Projections: World Literature on Chinese Screens144
Zhang Zhen
11 The Rhetoric of Interruption 164
Allen S. Weiss
12 Visualizing the Voice: Joyce, Cinema, and the Politics ofVision 171
Luke Gibbons
13 Adapting Cinema to History: A Revolution in the Making189
Dudley Andrew
14 Photographic Verismo, Cinematic Adaptation, and the Stagingof a Neorealist Landscape 205
Noa Steimatsky
15 The Devil's Parody: Horace McCoy's Appropriationand Refiguration of Two Hollywood Musicals 229
Charles Musser
16 The Sociological Turn of Adaptation Studies: The Example ofFilm 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 LongDistance 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, GayArtifice, 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 inThe War of the Worlds 423
Julian Cornell
Index 448

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).
Alessandra Raengo is finishing her PhD in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University, where she occasionally teaches. Her dissertation explores race and vernacular social criticism in American culture between 1945 and 1968. Among her publications are The Birth of Film Genres (1999) and The Bounds of Representation (2000), both multilingual volumes edited with Leonardo Quaresima and Laura Vichi.