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Classics in film and fiction /

The contributors to this volume negotiate the notion of a classic in film and fiction, exploring the growing interface and the blurring of boundaries between literature and film. They consider both canonical literary and film text.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Cartmell, Deborah (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; Sterling, Virginia : Pluto Press, 2000.
Series:Film/fiction ; v. 5.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : classics across the film/literature divide / Heidi Kaye and Imelda Whelehan
  • "If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes" : Blade Runner and La Symphonie Pastorale / Nick Peim
  • Classic Shakespeare for all : Forbidden Planet and Prospero's Books, two screen adaptations of The Tempest / Sara Martin
  • The red and the blue : Jane Eyre in the 1990s / Lisa Hopkins
  • Transcultural aesthetics and the film adaptations of Henry James / Martin Halliwell
  • "Hystorical" puritanism : contemporary cinematic adaptations of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Arthur Miller's The Crucible / Sergio Rizzo
  • Mrs Dalloway and Orlando : the subject of time and generic transactions / Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps
  • "Desire projected itself visually" : watching Death in Venice / Stuart Burrows
  • Leopold Bloom walks and Jimmy Stewart stares : on motion, genre and the classic / Kay Young
  • Trial and error : combinatory fidelity in two versions of Franz Kafka's The Trial / Paul M. Malone
  • In Cold Blood : yellow birds, new realism and killer culture / Paul Wells
  • Home by tea-time : fear of imagination in Disney's Alice in Wonderland / Deborah Ross.