Textual Revisions : Reading Literature and Film.
Title:
Textual Revisions : Reading Literature and Film.
Author:
Baker, Brian.
ISBN:
9781908258588
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (266 pages)
Contents:
Front cover -- Title pages -- Copyright page -- Contents page -- Brian Baker - Introduction -- Adapting the Nineteenth-Century Novel -- Deborah Wynne - The Materialisation of the 'Austen World': Film Adaptations of Jane Austen's Novels -- Paul Foster - 'The Amazing Cinematograph': Cinema and Illusion in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' -- Adapting the Twentieth-Century Novel -- Deniz Baker - Modernist Writing, the Cinematic Image and Time -- William Stephenson - From Image to Frame: The Filming of The French Lieutenant's Woman -- Adapting Drama -- Graham Atkin - 'The Rain it Raineth in Every Frame': A Defence of Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night (1996) -- Ashley Chantler - The Film of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker -- Adaptation and Genre -- Brian Baker - 'Can You See?': Spielberg's Screen Adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 'The Minority Report' -- Chris Walsh - 'Refracted Light': Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings' -- Back cover.
Abstract:
Textual Revisions is a collection of new essays which discusses adaptations for cinema and television of a variety of novels, plays and short stories. Works discussed include adaptations of novels by Austen, Stoker, Michael Cunningham, Fowles and Tolkien, plays by Shakespeare and Pinter, and a short story by Philip K. Dick. Contents: The Materialisation of the Austen World: Film Adaptations of Jane Austen's Novels, by Deborah Wynne; The Amazing Cinematograph: Cinema and Illusion in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, by Paul Foster; Modernist Writing, the Cinematic Image and Time, by Deniz Baker; From Image to Frame: The Filming of The French Lieutenant's Woman, by William Stephenson; The Rain It Raineth in Every Frame: A Defence of Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night, by Graham Atkin; The Film of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, by Ashley Chantler; Can You See?: Spielberg's Screen Adaptation of Philip K. Dick's The Minority Report, by Brian Baker; Refracted Light: Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings, by Chris Walsh.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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