From fidelity to history [[electronic resource] ] : film adaptations as cultural events in the twentieth century / / Anne-Marie Scholz
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Scholz Anne-Marie
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| Titolo: |
From fidelity to history [[electronic resource] ] : film adaptations as cultural events in the twentieth century / / Anne-Marie Scholz
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/6 |
| Soggetto topico: | Film adaptations - History and criticism |
| Motion pictures and literature | |
| Motion pictures and history | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Cultural Studies (General), History: 20th Century to Present, Film and Television Studies |
| Classificazione: | AP 47600 |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | From fidelity to history |
| ISBN: | 1-78533-034-9 |
| 0-85745-732-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910779978203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Transatlantic Perspectives