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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483329403321

Autore

Mooney William H. <1948->

Titolo

Adaptation and the New Art Film : Remaking the Classics in the Twilight of Cinema / / by William H. Mooney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030629342

3030629341

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture, , 2634-6303

Disciplina

791.436

Soggetti

Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Motion pictures, American

Motion pictures

Adaptation Studies

American Film and TV

Global Film and TV

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Part 1: Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Douglas Sirk -- Chapter 1: The Recreation of All that Heaven Allows as Angst Essen Seele Auf (Fear Eats the Soul, 1974) -- Part 2: Derivations and Procedural Challenges -- Chapter 2. The Palimpsestuous Ghost of Rome Open City (1945) in The Lives of Others (2006) -- Chapter 3. Clouds of Sils Maria and All about Eve: Adapting a Classic Paradigm -- Chapter 4. Leos Carax: Les Amants du Pont-Neuf and City Lights -- Part 3: Nostalgic Adventures and Aesthetic Complications -- Chapter 5. Chantal Akerman in the Labyrinth of Desire: La Captive, Marcel Proust, and Vertigo -- Chapter 6. The Coen Brothers' Retrospective Foreboding -- Chapter 7. Baz Luhrmann's Outsized Ambition: The Great Gatsby and Citizen Kane -- Chapter 8. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Since the 1990s, the expropriation of canonical works of cinema has been a fundamental dimension of art-film exploration. Rainer Werner Fassbinder provides an early model of open adaptation of film classics, followed ever more boldly by the Coen Brothers, Chantal Akerman, Alex



Carax, Todd Haynes, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Baz Luhrmann, and Olivier Assayas. This book devotes chapters to each of these directors to examine how their films redeploy landmark precursors such as City Lights (1931), Citizen Kane(1941), Rome Open City (1945), All About Eve (1950), and Vertigo (1958) in order to probe our psychological, philosophical, and historical situations in a postmodern société du spectacle. In broadly diverse ways, each of these directors complicates received notions of the past and its representation, while probing the transformative media evolution and dislocation of the present, infilm art and in society.