Textual Revisions is a collection of new essays which discusses adaptations for cinema and television of a variety of novels, plays and short stories. Works discussed include adaptations of novels by Austen, Stoker, Michael Cunningham, Fowles and Tolkien, plays by Shakespeare and Pinter, and a short story by Philip K. Dick.
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Title pages
- Copyright page
- Contents page
- Brian Baker - Introduction
- Adapting the Nineteenth-Century Novel
- Deborah Wynne - The Materialisation of the 'Austen World': Film Adaptations of Jane Austen's Novels
- Paul Foster - 'The Amazing Cinematograph': Cinema and Illusion in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'
- Adapting the Twentieth-Century Novel
- Deniz Baker - Modernist Writing, the Cinematic Image and Time
- William Stephenson - From Image to Frame: The Filming of The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Adapting Drama
- Graham Atkin - 'The Rain it Raineth in Every Frame': A Defence of Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night (1996)
- Ashley Chantler - The Film of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker
- Adaptation and Genre
- Brian Baker - 'Can You See?': Spielberg's Screen Adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 'The Minority Report'
- Chris Walsh - 'Refracted Light': Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings'
- Back cover
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