Film adaptation and its discontents : from Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ / Thomas Leitch.
2007
PN1997.85 .L35 2007eb
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Title
Film adaptation and its discontents : from Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ / Thomas Leitch.
Author
ISBN
9780801891878 (electronic bk.)
0801891876 (electronic bk.)
143569256X (electronic bk.)
9781435692565 (electronic bk.)
9780801885655 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0801885655 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0801892716 (pbk.)
9780801892714 (pbk.)
0801891876 (electronic bk.)
143569256X (electronic bk.)
9781435692565 (electronic bk.)
9780801885655 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0801885655 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0801892716 (pbk.)
9780801892714 (pbk.)
Imprint
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, ©2007.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xi, 354 pages)
Call Number
PN1997.85 .L35 2007eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)300052317
Summary
Most books on film adaptation -- the relation between films and their literary sources -- focus on a series of close one-to-one comparisons between specific films and canonical novels. This volume identifies and investigates a far wider array of problems posed by the process of adaptation. Beginning with an examination of why adaptation study has so often supported the institution of literature rather than fostering the practice of literacy, Thomas Leitch considers how the creators of short silent films attempted to give them the weight of literature, what sorts of fidelity are possible in an adaptation of sacred scripture, what it means for an adaptation to pose as an introduction to, rather than a transcription of, a literary classic, and why and how some films have sought impossibly close fidelity to their sources. After examining the surprisingly divergent fidelity claims made by three different kinds of canonical adaptations, Leitch's analysis moves beyond literary sources to consider why a small number of adapters have risen to the status of auteurs and how illustrated books, comic strips, video games, and true stories have been adapted to the screen. 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-338) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Literature versus literacy
One-reel epics
The word made film
Entry-level Dickens
Between adaptation and allusion
Exceptional fidelity
Traditions of quality
Streaming pictures
The hero with a hundred faces
The adapter as auteur
Postliterary adaptation
Based on a true story.
One-reel epics
The word made film
Entry-level Dickens
Between adaptation and allusion
Exceptional fidelity
Traditions of quality
Streaming pictures
The hero with a hundred faces
The adapter as auteur
Postliterary adaptation
Based on a true story.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. (http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212)
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Print version: Leitch, Thomas M. Film adaptation and its discontents. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, ©2007
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