Classics in Film and Fiction
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Classics in Film and Fiction

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Classics in Film and Fiction

About this book

This book negotiates the notion of a 'classic' in film and fiction, exploring the growing interface and the blurring of boundaries between literature and film. Taking the problematic term 'classic' as its focus, the contributors consider both canonical literary and film texts, questioning whether classic status in one domain transfers it to another. Classics in Film and Fiction looks at a wide range of texts and their adaptations. Authors discussed are Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, Henry James, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Miller, Truman Capote and Lewis Carroll. Book to film adaptations analysed include Jane Eyre, The Crucible, The Tempest and Alice in Wonderland. The collection also evaluates the term 'classic' in a wider context, including a comparison of Joyce's Ulysses with Hitchcock's Rear Window. Throughout, the contributors challenge the dichotomy between high culture and pop culture.

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Yes, you can access Classics in Film and Fiction by Deborah Cartmell, I. Q. Hunter, Heidi Kaye, Imelda Whelehan in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Cultural & Social Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Notes on Contributors
  3. Introduction: Classics Across the Film/ Literature Divide
  4. 1. 'If Only You Could See What I've Seen with Your Eyes': Blade Runner and La Symphonie Pastorale
  5. 2. Classic Shakespeare for All: Forbidden Planet and Prospero's Books, Two Screen Adaptations of The Tempest
  6. 3. The Red and the Blue: Jane Eyre in the 1990s
  7. 4. Transcultural Aesthetics and the Film Adaptations of Henry James
  8. 5. 'Hystorical' Puritanism: Contemporary Cinematic Adaptations of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Arthur Mil
  9. 6. Mrs Dalloway and Orlando: The Subject of Time and Generic Transactions
  10. 7. 'Desire Projected Itself Visually': Watching Death in Venice
  11. 8. Leopold Bloom Walks and Jimmy Stewart Stares: On Motion, Genre and the Classic
  12. 9. Trial and Error: Combinatory Fidelity in Two Versions of Franz Kafka's The Trial
  13. 10. In Cold Blood : Yellow Birds, New Realism and Killer Culture
  14. 11. Home by Tea- time: Fear of Imagination in Disney's Alice in Wonderland
  15. Index