- 204 pages
- English
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About this book
This is a comprehensive survey of the relationship between film and literature. It looks at the cinematic adaptations of such literary masters as Shakespeare, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and D.H. Lawrence, and considers the contribution to the cinema made by important literary figures as Harold Pinter, James Agree and Graham Greene. Elsewhere, the book draws intriguing analogies between certain literary and film artists, such as Dickens and Chaplin, Ford and Twain, and suggests that such analogies can throw fresh light on the subjects under review. Another chapter considers the film genre of the bio-pic, the numerous cinematic attempts to render in concrete terms the complexities of the literary life, whether the writer be Proust, Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Dashiel Hammett, Agatha Christie or Boris Pasternak.
Originally published in 1986, this is a book to appeal to any reader with an interest in film or literature, and is of especial value to those involved in the teaching or study of either subject.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. âIn My Mindâs Eyeâ: Shakespeare on the Screen
- 2. Historian of Fine Consciences: Henry James and the Cinema
- 3. Another Fine Mess: D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy on Film
- 4. Age of Doublethink: George Orwell and the Cinema
- 5. Pinterâs Go-Between
- 6. The Camera Eye of James Agee
- 7. Kindred Spirits: Analogies between the Film and Literary Artist Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin; Mark Twain and John Ford; Graham Greene and Alfred Hitchcock; Joseph Conrad and Orson Welles
- 8. Adaptation as Criticism: Four Films Great Expectations; Death in Venice; Barry Lyndon; The French Lieutenantâs Woman
- 9. Bio-Pics: The Literary Life on Film
- 10. Film and Theatre
- Acknowledgements
- Index