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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813556703321

Autore

Leitch Thomas M

Titolo

Film adaptation and its discontents : from Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ / / Thomas Leitch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Md., : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8018-9187-6

1-4356-9256-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/6

Soggetti

Film adaptations - History and criticism

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. [325]-338) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Literature versus Literacy -- 2 One-Reel Epics -- 3 The Word Made Film -- 4 Entry-Level Dickens -- 5 Between Adaptation and Allusion -- 6 Exceptional Fidelity -- 7 Traditions of Quality -- 8 Streaming Pictures -- 9 The Hero with a Hundred Faces -- 10 The Adapter as Auteur -- 11 Postliterary Adaptation -- 12 Based on a True Story -- 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 -- X -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

The range of films studied, from silent Shakespeare to Sherlock Holmes to The Lord of the Rings, is as broad as the problems that come under review.