Period costume dramas are major box-office commodities, exploiting the lucrative gap between blockbusters and art films with their mixture of rich visuals, popular sensibility, and literary association. "Heritage cinema" is all too often discussed from literary (not cinematic) perspectives, and criticism of the films has long been overshadowed by the question of a film's fidelity (or lack of) to the original text. This volume of essays redresses the balance by examining the relationship between literature and film, representing both the view--and the critics of the view--that heritage cinema's elaborate aesthetics owe more to nostalgia than to historical accuracy. In her introduction to the volume, Ginette Vincendeau makes a case for the genre as an important and critically neglected form of popular cinema.Film / Literature / Heritageincludes discussions of a wide selection of adaptations from Shakespeare to William Burroughs, as well as interviews with the screenwriters and adaptors of major films fromElizabethtoLA Confidential, and directors from Martin Scorsese to Peter Greenaway. Contributors are drawn from the best industry, academic, literary, and journalistic commentators on both sides of the Atlantic.

Preface

ix

Introduction

xi

Ginette Vincendeau

Note to the Reader

xxv

References

xxvii

A `New Genre' - The Heritage Cinema

The British Heritage Cinema Debate

`Rooms Without a View'

3

(3)

Cairns Craig

`Sexuality and Heritage'

6

(5)

Claire Monk

`Dressing the Part'

11

(3)

Andy Medhurst

`The Shadow'

14

(5)

Liz Lochhead

Heritage, History and Spectacle

`Cinema's Conquistadors'

19

(4)

Peter Wollen

`Falling Out of Love'

23

(4)

Serge Daney

`Unsettling Memories'

27

(5)

Ginette Vincendeau

`A Hungry Eye'

32

(5)

Griselda Pollock

`Masque of the Living Dead'

37

(6)

Jonathan Romney

`Nice Young Men Who Sell Antiques: Gay Men in Heritage Cinema'

43

(10)

Richard Dyer

Adapting the Literary Canon

Case Studies

Orlando

`Fire and Ice'

53

(4)

Verina Glaessner

`Immortal Longing': Walter Donohue talks

57

(4)

Sally Potter

The Age of Innocence

`Dread and Desire'

61

(5)

Amy Taubin

`Passion and Restraint': Ian Christie talks

66

(6)

Martin Scorese

Little Women

`What Are You Girls Going to Do?'

72

(5)

Lizzie Francke

Gillian Armstrong

Sense and Sensibility

`Cautionary Tale'

77

(4)

Graham Fuller

The Portrait of a Lady and other Henry James novels

`On the Brink'

81

(4)

Lizzie Francke

`The James Gang'

85

(6)

Philip Horne

Dracula

`Dracula and Desire'

91

(6)

Richard Dyer

`Bloodlines'

97

(4)

Kim Newman

`Invasion of the Blood'

101

(3)

Iain Sinclair

Germinal

`Germinal: Keeping It in the Family'

104

(5)

Jill Forbes

Shakespeare & the Elizabethans

`A Tale of Two Magicians'

109

(6)

Adam Barker

Peter Greenway

`Damning Desire'

115

(5)

Mike O'Pray

Derek Jarman

`Romeo & Juliet: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang'

120

(5)

Jose Arroyo

`Titus: Bloody Arcades'

125

(5)

John Wrathall

Julie Taymor

`Elizabeth and Shakespeare in Love: Screening the Elizabethans'

130

(5)

Julianne Pidduck

The Madness of King George

`Power Mad'

135

(4)

Jonathan Coe

Reviews

`Cyrano de Bergerac'

139

(3)

Philip Strick

`Prospero's Books'

142

(3)

Jonathan Romney

`Edward II'

145

(2)

Jonathan Romney

`Howards End'

147

(2)

Lizzie Francke

`Orlando'

149

(2)

Lizzie Francke

`El maestro de esgrima'

151

(1)

Philip Kemp

`Madame Bovary'

152

(2)

Chris Darke

`Como agua para chocolate'

154

(2)

John Kraniauskas

`The Secret Garden'

156

(3)

Lizzie Francke

`The Remains of the Day'

159

(2)

Geoffery Macnab

`The Age of Innocence'

161

(3)

Pam Cook

`The Three Musketeers'

164

(2)

Geoffrey Macnab

`Belle Epoque'

166

(2)

Paul Julian Smith

`Mary Shelly's Frankenstein'

168

(2)

Amanda Lipman

`La Reine Margot'

170

(2)

Chris Darke

`Carrington'

172

(3)

Geoffrey Macnab

`Le Hussard sur le toit'

175

(2)

Chris Darke

`Les Miserables du vingtieme siecle'

177

(2)

Mark Sinker

`Sense and Sensibility'

179

(3)

Claire Monk

`Ridicule'

182

(2)

Ginette Vincendeau

`Mrs. Brown'

184

(2)

Colin McArthur

`Wilde'

186

(2)

Tony Rains

`Mrs Dalloway'

188

(2)

Claire Monk

`Le Bossu'

190

(2)

Ginette Vincendeau

`The Mask of Zorro'

192

(1)

Jose Arroyo

`Tea with Mussolini'

193

(2)

Andy Medhurst

`The End of the Affair'

195

(2)

Philip Kemp

`Mansfield Park'

197

(6)

Andy Richards

Modern Dystopias from Book to Screen

Case Studies

The Naked Lunch

`The Wrong Body'

203

(2)

Amy Taubin

`The Naked Diners Club'

205

(3)

Iain Sinclair

Crash

`Crash':

208

(9)

Chris Rodley

David Cronenberg

Short Cuts

`In the Time of Earthquakes'

217

(6)

Jonathan Romney

Trainspotting

`The Boys are Back in Town'

223

(4)

Andrew O'Hagan

American Psycho

`Sick City Boy'

227

(5)

Nick James

Jim Thompson adaptations

`Ten Percent of the Proceeds'

232

(3)

Adrian Wootton

Elmore Leonard adaptations

`The Mouth and the Method':

235

(6)

Erik Bauer

Quentin Tarantino

Jackie Brown

`Blind Date': Steven Soderbergh's adaptation of Out of Sight

241

(6)

Peter Matthews

Reviews

`The Grifters'

247

(2)

Tom Milne

`Interview with the Vampire'

249

(2)

Kim Newman

`La Ceremonie'

251

(3)

Lizzie Francke

`Crash'

254

(2)

Leslie Dick

`L.A. Confidential'

256

(2)

John Wrathall

`Jackie Brown'

258

(2)

Stella Bruzzi

`Lolita'

260

(2)

Leslie Dick

`The Talented Mr. Ripley'

262

(2)

Charlotte O'Sullivan

`The Beach'

264

(1)

Xan Brooks

`American Psycho'

265

(6)

Tony Rayns

The Practice of Screenwriting and Adaptation

`Trust the Teller':

271

(3)

Henry Sheehan

James V. Hart

`Lonely People'

274

(3)

Mark Burman

Caroline Thompson

`The Thriller Inside Me': Larry Gross on his adaptation of Jim Thompson's This World, Then the Fireworks (June 1997)

277

(2)

`The Road Not Taken':

279

(2)

Leslie Felperin

Scott Frank

Elmore Leonard

`Bass Hysteria': Benedict Carver examines the Leonard Bass phenomenon (March 1999)

281

(5)

`Great Expectations': Michael Eaton on adapting Dickens (June 1999)

286

(3)

Index

289

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