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Literature Through Film: Realism, Magic, and the Art of AdaptationISBN: 978-1-4051-0287-2
Hardcover
412 pages
October 2004, ©2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Contains first-rate analysis of the process and the art of
literature-to-film adaptations, from a leading expert in film
studies
- Provides a lively, rigorous, and clearly written account of key
moments in the history of the novel from Don Quixote and Robinson
Crusoe up to Lolita and One Hundred Years of
Solitude
- Includes diversity of topics and titles, such as Fielding,
Nabokov, and Cervantes in adaptations by Welles, Kubrick, and the
French New Wave
- Emphasizes both the literary texts themselves and their varied
transtextual film adaptations
- Examines numerous literary trends – from the
self-conscious novel to magic realism – before exploring the
cinematic impact of the movement
- Reinvigorates the field of adaptation studies by examining it
through the grid of contemporary theory
- Brings novels and film adaptations into the age of multiculturalism, postcoloniality, and the Internet by reflecting on their contemporary relevance.
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