Literature Through Film Realism, Magic, and the Art of Adaptation

by Stam, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781405102889
• ISBN10: 1405102888
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-22
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Written by a leading figure in film and literary studies, this accessible textbook offers a first-rate analysis of the process and the art of literature-to-film adaptations. bull; bull;Provides a lively, rigorous, and clearly written account of key moments in the history of the novel from Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe up to Lolita and One Hundred Years of Solitude bull; bull;Emphasizes both the literary texts themselves and their varied transtextual film adaptations bull; bull;Examines numerous literary trends from the self-conscious novel to magic realism before exploring the cinematic impact of the movement bull; bull;Reinvigorates the field of adaptation studies by examining it through the grid of contemporary theory bull; bull;Brings novels and film adaptations into the age of multiculturalism, postcoloniality, and the Internet by reflecting on their contemporary relevance The book contains a wealth of insights for those who care about literature, film, and theory, offering the ideal introduction to this multifaceted subject. Together with its two companion volumes, it will doubtless change the field.

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).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Beyond "Fidelity"	p. 3
The Question of Genre	p. 5
Literary Realism and Magic	p. 7
Magic and Realism in the Cinema	p. 10
Multicultural Dialogism	p. 15
Questions of Method	p. 17
A Cervantic Prelude: From Don Quixote to Postmodernism	p. 22
Don Quixote on the Screen	p. 36
The Realistic Magic of Orson Welles	p. 44
From Don Quixote to Postmodernism	p. 53
Colonial and Postcolonial Classics: From Robinson Crusoe to Survivor	p. 63
The Post-text of Robinson Crusoe	p. 75
Decolonizing Crusoe	p. 83
Postcolonial Echoes: Castaway and Survivor	p. 98
The Self-conscious Novel: From Henry Fielding to David Eggers	p. 102
The Reflexive Stylistics of Henry Fielding	p. 106
From Novel to Film: Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews	p. 112
Richardson's Joseph Andrews	p. 119
Machado de Assis: The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas	p. 123
From Bras Cubas to Postmodern Fiction	p. 135
The Proto-cinematic Novel: Metamorphoses of Madame Bovary	p. 144
Flaubert's Cinematic Gaze	p. 147
Flaubert the Impressionist	p. 154
Renoir's Madame Bovary	p. 162
The Minnelli Magic	p. 165
Chabrolian Realism	p. 175
From Bollywood to Woody Allen	p. 182
Underground Man and Neurotic Narrators: From Dostoevsky to Nabokov	p. 191
Memories of Underdevelopment	p. 210
The Metamorphoses of Lolita	p. 223
Gendered Narration: Hour of the Star	p. 243
Modernism, Adaptation, and the French New Wave	p. 253
The New Wave and the Cine-roman	p. 258
The Violent Yokings of Hiroshima mon amour	p. 268
Contempt: Moravia and Godard	p. 279
Don Quixote and the New Wave	p. 299
Full Circle: From Cervantes to Magic Realism	p. 307
"Magic Realism:" From Literature to Film	p. 314
Carnivalesque Anthropophagy	p. 317
The "Mother" of Magic Realism: Macunaima	p. 323
Macunaima: The Film	p. 329
Magic Realism a la Bresilienne	p. 338
Marquezian Magic	p. 340
Carpentier: "The Marvelous American Real"	p. 348
Conclusion	p. 362
Index	p. 371
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