Literature and Film
A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation
1. Edition September 2004
376 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-23055-7
John Wiley & Sons
Literature and Film is a cornucopia of vibrant essays that chart the history and confluence of literature and film. It explores in detail a wide and international spectrum of novels and adaptations, bringing together the very latest scholarship in the field.
List of Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: The Theory and Practice of Adaptation 1
Robert Stam
1 Improvements and Reparations at Mansfield Park 53
Tim Watson
2 Keeping the Carcass in Motion: Adaptation and Transmutations of the National in The Last of the Mohicans 71
Jacquelyn Kilpatrick
3 The Discreet Charm of the Leisure Class: Terence Davies's The House of Mirth 86
Richard Porton
4 In Search of Adaptation: Proust and Film 100
Melissa Anderson
5 The Grapes of Wrath: Thematic Emphasis through Visual Style 111
Vivian C. Sobchack
6 Cape Fear and Trembling: Familial Dread 126
Kirsten Thompson
7 The Carnival of Repression: German Left-wing Politics and The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum 148
Alexandra Seibel
8 Serial Time: Bluebeard in Stepford 163
Bliss Cua Lim
9 Boyz N the Hood Chronotopes: Spike Lee, Richard Price, and the Changing Authorship of Clockers 191
Paula J. Massood
10 Defusing the English Patient 208
Patrick Deer
11 Carnivals and Goldfish: History and Crisis in the Butcher Boy 233
Jessica Scarlata
12 Passion or Heartburn? The Uses of Humor in Esquivel's and Arau's Like Water for Chocolate 252
Dianna C. Niebylski
13 Beloved: The Adaptation of an American Slave Narrative 272
Mia Mask
14 Oral Traditions, Literature, and Cinema in Africa 295
Mbye Cham
15 Memory and History in the Politics of Adaptation: Revisiting the Partition of India in Tamas 313
Ranjani Mazumdar
16 The Written Scene: Writers as Figures of Cinematic Redemption 331
Paul Arthur
Index 343
Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: The Theory and Practice of Adaptation 1
Robert Stam
1 Improvements and Reparations at Mansfield Park 53
Tim Watson
2 Keeping the Carcass in Motion: Adaptation and Transmutations of the National in The Last of the Mohicans 71
Jacquelyn Kilpatrick
3 The Discreet Charm of the Leisure Class: Terence Davies's The House of Mirth 86
Richard Porton
4 In Search of Adaptation: Proust and Film 100
Melissa Anderson
5 The Grapes of Wrath: Thematic Emphasis through Visual Style 111
Vivian C. Sobchack
6 Cape Fear and Trembling: Familial Dread 126
Kirsten Thompson
7 The Carnival of Repression: German Left-wing Politics and The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum 148
Alexandra Seibel
8 Serial Time: Bluebeard in Stepford 163
Bliss Cua Lim
9 Boyz N the Hood Chronotopes: Spike Lee, Richard Price, and the Changing Authorship of Clockers 191
Paula J. Massood
10 Defusing the English Patient 208
Patrick Deer
11 Carnivals and Goldfish: History and Crisis in the Butcher Boy 233
Jessica Scarlata
12 Passion or Heartburn? The Uses of Humor in Esquivel's and Arau's Like Water for Chocolate 252
Dianna C. Niebylski
13 Beloved: The Adaptation of an American Slave Narrative 272
Mia Mask
14 Oral Traditions, Literature, and Cinema in Africa 295
Mbye Cham
15 Memory and History in the Politics of Adaptation: Revisiting the Partition of India in Tamas 313
Ranjani Mazumdar
16 The Written Scene: Writers as Figures of Cinematic Redemption 331
Paul Arthur
Index 343
"Stam and Raengo's Literature and Film offers a
wonderful collection of approaches to the multifaceted and
sometimes contradictory relationship between the written word and
the filmic image, bringing into the discussion a refreshing series
of examples drawn from international and minority
cinemas."
Richard Pea, Columbia University
wonderful collection of approaches to the multifaceted and
sometimes contradictory relationship between the written word and
the filmic image, bringing into the discussion a refreshing series
of examples drawn from international and minority
cinemas."
Richard Pea, Columbia University
Robert Stam is University Professor at New York University. His many books include Film Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell, 2000), Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (with Ella Shohat, 1994), and Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism and Film (1989). With Toby Miller, he is the editor of Film and Theory (Blackwell, 2000) and The Blackwell Companion to Film Theory (2000).
Alessandra Raengo is finishing her PhD in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University. Her dissertation explores race and vernacular social criticism in American culture between 1945 and 1968. Among her publications are The Birth of Film Genres (1999) and The Bounds of Representation (2000), both multilingual volumes edited with Leonardo Quaresima and Laura Vichi.
Alessandra Raengo is finishing her PhD in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University. Her dissertation explores race and vernacular social criticism in American culture between 1945 and 1968. Among her publications are The Birth of Film Genres (1999) and The Bounds of Representation (2000), both multilingual volumes edited with Leonardo Quaresima and Laura Vichi.
