Classics in Film and Fiction

by Cartmell, Deborah; Hunter, I.Q.; Kaye, Heidi; Whelehan, Imelda

• ISBN13: 9780745315881
• ISBN10: 0745315887
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-20
• Publisher: Pluto Press

Summary

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. Taking the problematic term 'classic' as its focus, the contributors consider both canonical literary and film texts, questioning whether classic status in one domain transfers it to another.Classics in Film and Fiction looks at a wide range of texts and their adaptations. Authors discussed are Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, Henry James, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Miller, Truman Capote and Lewis Carroll. Book to film adaptations analysed include Jane Eyre, The Crucible, The Tempest and Alice in Wonderland. The collection also evaluates the term 'classic' in a wider context, including a comparison of Joyce's Ulysses with Hitchcock's Rear Window. Throughout, the contributors challenge the dichotomy between high culture and pop culture.

Author Biography

Deborah Cartmell is a Principal Lecturer in English at De Montfort University; I.Q. Hunter is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at De Montfort; Imelda Whelehan is a Principal Lecturer in English and Women’s Studies at De Montfort; and Heidi Kaye is a former Senior Lecturer in English and Women’s Studies at De Montfort. All four are editors of the previous titles in the Film/Fiction series.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Classics Across the Film/Literature Divide	p. 1
'If Only You Could See What I've Seen with Your Eyes': Blade Runner and La Symphonie Pastorale	p. 14
Classic Shakespeare for All: Forbidden Planet and Prospero's Books, Two Screen Adaptations of The Tempest	p. 34
The Red and the Blue: Jane Eyre in the 1990s	p. 54
Transcultural Aesthetics and the Film Adaptations of Henry James	p. 70
'Hystorical' Puritanism: Contemporary Cinematic Adaptations of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Arthur Miller's The Crucible	p. 93
Mrs. Dalloway and Orlando: The Subject of Time and Generic Transactions	p. 116
'Desire Projected Itself Visually': Watching Death in Venice	p. 137
Leopold Bloom Walks and Jimmy Stewart Stares: On Motion, Genre and the Classic	p. 157
Trial and Error: Combinatory Fidelity in Two Versions of Franz Kafka's The Trial	p. 176
In Cold Blood: Yellow Birds, New Realism and Killer Culture	p. 194
Home by Tea-time: Fear of Imagination in Disney's Alice in Wonderland	p. 207
Index	p. 229
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