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Author Scholz, Anne-Marie.

Title From Fidelity to History : Film Adaptations as Cultural Events in the Twentieth Century.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (239 pages).
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series Transatlantic Perspectives
Transatlantic perspectives.
Contents Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction -- Adaptation as Reception: How Film Historians Can Contribute to the Literature to Film Debates; Part I -- Post-Cold War Readings of the Receptions of Blockbuster Adaptations in Cold War West Germany 1950-1963; Chapter One -- ""Eine Revolution des Films"": The Third Man, The Cold War, and Alternatives to Nationalism and Coca-Colonization in Europe; Chapter Two -- The Bridge on the River Kwai Revisted: Combat Cinema, American Culture, and the German Past.
Chapter Three -- ""Josef K. von 1963"": Orson Welles's Americanized Version of The Trial and the Changing Functions of the Kafkaesque in Postwar West GermanyPart II -- Postfeminist Relations between Classic Texts and Hollywood Film Adaptations in the U.S. in the 1990s; Chapter 4 -- Jane-Mania: The Jane Austen Film Boom in the 1990s; Chapter 5 -- Thelma and Sense and Louise and Sensibility: Challenging Dichotomies in Women's History through Film and Literature; Chapter 6 -- Jamesian Proportions: The Henry James Film Boom in the 1990s.
Conclusion -- A Case for the Case Study: The Future of Adaptation Studies as a Branch of Transnational Film HistoryAppendix 1 -- Mediating Apparent and Latent Content; Appendix 2 -- Model of Adaptation as a Process of Reception; Filmography; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Scholarly approaches to the relationship between literature and film, ranging from the traditional focus upon fidelity to more recent issues of intertextuality, all contain a significant blind spot: a lack of theoretical and methodological attention to adaptation as an historical and transnational phenomenon. This book argues for a historically informed approach to American popular culture that reconfigures the classically defined adaptation phenomenon as a form of transnational reception. Focusing on several case studies- including the films Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Th.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Film adaptations -- History and criticism.
Film adaptations.
Motion pictures and literature.
Motion pictures and literature.
Motion pictures and history.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Motion pictures and history.
HISTORY -- General.
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Scholz, Anne-Marie. From Fidelity to History : Film Adaptations as Cultural Events in the Twentieth Century. New York : Berghahn Books, ©2013 9780857457318
ISBN 9780857457325 (electronic book)
0857457322 (electronic book)
1299777317 (e-book)
9781299777316 (e-book)
0857457314
9780857457318
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