A Companion To Literature And Film

by Stam, Robert; Raengo, Alessandra

• ISBN13: 9780631230533
• ISBN10: 063123053X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-29
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to Literature in Film provides state-of-the-art research on world literature, film, and the complex theoretical relationship between them. 25 essays by international experts cover the most important topics in the study of literature and film adaptations. Covers a wide variety of topics, including cultural, thematic, theoretical, and genre issues Discusses film adaptations from the birth of cinema to the present day Explores a diverse range of titles and genres, including film noir, biblical epics, and Italian and Chinese cinema

Author Biography

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, where she occasionally teaches. 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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	viii
Notes on Contributors	ix
Preface	xiv
Acknowledgments	xvi
Novels, Films, and the Word/Image Wars	1	(22)
Kamilla Elliott
Sacred Word, Profane Image: Theologies of Adaptation	23	(23)
Ella Shohat
Gospel Truth? From Cecil B. DeMille to Nicholas Ray	46	(12)
Pamela Grace
Transecriture and Narrative Mediatics: The Stakes of Intermediality	58	(13)
Andre Gaudreault
Philippe Marion
The Look: From Film to Novel. An Essay in Comparative Narratology	71	(10)
Francois Jost
Adaptation and Mis-adaptations: Film, Literature, and Social Discourses	81	(11)
Francesco Casetti
The Invisible Novelty: Film Adaptations in the 1910s	92	(20)
Yuri Tsivian
Italy and America: Pinocchio's First Cinematic Trip	112	(15)
Raffaele De Berti
The Intertextuality of Early Cinema: A Prologue to Fantomas	127	(17)
Tom Gunning
Cosmopolitan Projections: World Literature on Chinese Screens	144	(20)
Zhang Zhen
The Rhetoric of Interruption	164	(7)
Allen S. Weiss
Visualizing the Voice: Joyce, Cinema, and the Politics of Vision	171	(18)
Luke Gibbons
Adapting Cinema to History: A Revolution in the Making	189	(16)
Dudley Andrew
Photographic Verismo, Cinematic Adaptation, and the Staging of a Neorealist Landscape	205	(24)
Noa Steimatsky
The Devil's Parody: Horace McCoy's Appropriation and Refiguration of Two Hollywood Musicals	229	(29)
Charles Musser
The Sociological Turn of Adaptation Studies: The Example of Film Noir	258	(20)
R. Barton Palmer
Adapting Farewell, My Lovely	278	(20)
William Luhr
Daphne du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock	298	(28)
Richard Allen
Running Time: The Chronotope of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner	326	(17)
Peter Hitchcock
From Libertinage to Eric Rohmer: Transcending ``Adaptation''	343	(15)
Maria Tortajada
The Moment of Portraiture: Scorsese Reads Wharton	358	(10)
Brigitte Peucker
The Talented Poststructuralist: Hetero-masculinity, Gay Artifice, and Class Passing	368	(17)
Chris Straayer
From Bram Stoker's Dracula to Bram Stoker's ``Dracula''	385	(14)
Margaret Montalbano
The Bible as Cultural Object(s) in Cinema	399	(24)
Gavriel Moses
All's Wells that Ends Wells: Apocalypse and Empire in The War of the Worlds	423	(25)
Julian Cornell
Index	448