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1 online resource (239 pages). |
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polychrome |
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Transatlantic Perspectives
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Transatlantic perspectives.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Film adaptations -- History and criticism.
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Film adaptations. |
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Motion pictures and literature.
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Motion pictures and literature. |
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Motion pictures and history.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference. |
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Motion pictures and history. |
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HISTORY -- General. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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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) |
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0857457322 (electronic book) |
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1299777317 (e-book) |
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9781299777316 (e-book) |
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0857457314 |
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9780857457318 |
Standard No. |
40022523873 |
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