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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524886303321

Autore

Della Coletta Cristina <1962->

Titolo

When stories travel : cross-cultural encounters between fiction and film / / Cristina Della Coletta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-4214-0662-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/6

Soggetti

Film adaptations - History and criticism

Motion pictures and literature

Hermeneutics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-262) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note to the Reader -- Introduction -- 1 "Fear Death by Water": The Postman Always Rings Twice and the Frauds of Memory -- 2 Myth in the Mirror of History: The Rules of Fate and the Responsibilities of Choice in Visconti's Ossessione -- 3 Grotesque Doublings and the Dangers of the Sublime: Poe's "Never Bet the Devil Your Head" -- 4 Fellini's "Unoriginal" Scripts: The Creative Power of the Grotesque -- 5 India through the Looking Glass: The Narrative Heritage of the West and Antonio Tabucchi's Notturno indiano -- 6 "A Cinema of Quotations": Nocturne indien -- or, How Alain Corneau Filmed Antonio Tabucchi's "Night" -- 7 The Writer in the Looking Glass: Jorge Luis Borges's "Tema del traidor y del héroe" and the Ambivalences of the Uncanny -- 8 From Icon to Simulacrum: Bertolucci's La strategia del ragno and the Urban Labyrinths of the Uncanny -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

With a firm grasp on the latest developments in adaptation theory, Della Coletta invites scholars of media studies, cultural history, comparative literature, and adaptation studies to deepen their understanding of this critical encounter between texts, writers, readers, and cultural movements.