From fidelity to history : film adaptations as cultural events in the twentieth century / / Anne-Marie Scholz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818266103321
• Autore: Scholz Anne-Marie
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013
• ISBN: 1-78533-034-9; 0-85745-732-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 p.)
• Collana: Transatlantic Perspectives ; ; 3; Transatlantic perspectives ; ; 11
• Classificazione: AP 47600
• Disciplina: 791.43/6; 791.436
• Soggetti: Film adaptations - History and criticism; Motion pictures and literature; Motion pictures and history
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Adaptation as reception: how film historians can contribute to the "literature to film" debates -- Post Cold War readings of the receptions of Anglo-American Hollywood. Adaptations in Cold War West Germany: 1950-1963 -- "Eine revolution des films": The third man (1949), the Cold War, and alternatives to nationalism and "coca-colonization" in Europe -- The bridge on the River Kwai (1957) revisited: combat cinema, American culture and the German past -- "Josef K von 1963": Orson Welles' "Americanized" version of the the trial and the changing functions of the "Kafkaesque" in Cold War West Germany -- Postfeminist relations between "classic" texts and Hollywood film adaptations in the United States in the 1990s: Introduction. "Jane-mania": the Jane Austen film boom in the 1990s -- Thelma and sense and Louise and sensibility: challenging dichotomies in women's history through film and literature -- "Jamesian proportions": the Henry James film boom in the 1990s -- Conclusion -- A case for the "case study": the future of adaptation studies as a branch of transnational film history.
• Sommario/riassunto: Scholarly approaches to the relationship between literature and film, ; ranging from the traditional focus upon fidelity to more recent issues of intertextuality, all contain a significant blind spot: a lack of theoretical and methodological attention to adaptation as an historical and transnational phenomenon. This book argues for a historically informed approach to American popular culture that reconfigures the classically defined adaptation phenomenon as a form of transnational reception. Focusing on several case studies- including the films Sense and Sensibility (1995) and The Portrait of a