Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen

by Edited by Robert Mayer

• ISBN13: 9780521529105
• ISBN10: 0521529107
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen offers an extensive introduction to cinematic representations of the eighteenth century, mostly derived from classic fiction of that period, and sheds new light on the process of making prose fiction into film. The contributors provide a variety of theoretical and critical approaches to the process of bringing literary works to the screen. They consider a broad range of film and television adaptations, including several versions of Robinson Crusoe; three films of Moll Flanders; American, British, and French television adaptations of Gulliver's Travels, Clarissa, Tom Jones, and Jacques le fataliste; Wim Wender's film version of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprentice Years; the controversial film of Diderot's La Religieuese; and French and Anglo-American motion pictures based on Les Liaisons dangereuses among others. This book will appeal to students and scholars of literature and film alike.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Notes on the contributors	xi
Acknowledgments	xiv
Introduction. Is there a text in the screening room?	1	(15)
Robert Mayer
The cinema of attractions and the novel in Barry Lyndon and Tom Jones	16	(19)
Peter Cosgrove
Three cinematic Robinsonades	35	(17)
Robert Mayer
Adaptations of Defoe's Moll Flanders	52	(18)
Catherine N. Parke
Film, censorship, and the ``corrupt original'' of Gulliver's Travels	70	(18)
Alan D. Chalmers
Adapting Fielding for film and television	88	(18)
Martin C. Battestin
The spaces of Clarissa in text and film	106	(17)
Cynthia Wall
Jacques le fataliste on film: from metafiction to metacinema	123	(16)
Alan J. Singerman
``Carnal to the point of scandal'': on the affair of La Religieuse	139	(18)
Kevin Jackson
Adaptation and cultural criticism: Les Liaisons dangereuses 1960 and Dangerous Liaisons	157	(18)
Richard Frohock
Mapping Goethe's Wilhelm Meister onto Wenders' Wrong Move	175	(17)
Margaret McCarthy
Rob Roy: the other eighteenth century?	192	(19)
Janet Sorensen
Filmography	211	(6)
Bibliography	217	(3)
Index	220