| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 257 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Includes filmography. |
| Contents |
Filming an unfinished novel : The last tycoon / Robert Sklar -- Texts behind The killers / Thomas Leitch -- Day of the Locust : 1939 and 1975 / Christopher Ames -- Ship of Fools : from novel to film / Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. -- Intruder in the dust and the southern community / Mark Royden Winchell -- Dramatizing The member of the wedding / McKay Jenkins -- Film and narration : two versions of Lolita / Robert Stam -- World War II through the lens of Vietnam : adapting Slaughterhouse-Five to film / William Rodney Allen -- John Huston's Wise Blood / Matthew Bernstein -- Genre and authorship in David Cronenberg's Naked lunch / Steffen Hantke -- Screening Raymond Carver : Robert Altman's Short cuts / Robert Kolker -- Color purple : translating the African-American novel for Hollywood / Allen Woll -- Specter of history : filming memory in Beloved / Marc C. Conner -- Filming the spiritual landscape of James Jones's The thin red line / R. Barton Palmer. |
| Summary |
The essays in this collection analyse major adaptations of twentieth-century American fiction, with production stills and full filmographies. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- Film adaptations.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Film adaptations.
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| Subject |
Motion pictures and literature -- United States.
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Motion pictures and literature. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Film adaptations.
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| Added Author |
Palmer, R. Barton, 1946-
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| Added Title |
20th-century American fiction on screen |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Twentieth-century American fiction on screen. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 (DLC) 2007296776 |
| ISBN |
0511274378 (electronic book) |
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9780511274374 (electronic book) |
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0511272758 |
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9780511272752 |
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0511273541 |
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9780511273544 |
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9780511271113 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511271115 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511270888 (electronic book ; Mobipocket Reader) |
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0511270887 (electronic book ; Mobipocket Reader) |
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9780511275074 (electronic book) |
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0511275072 (electronic book) |
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9780511610950 (ebook) |
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0511610955 (ebook) |
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1280815310 |
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9781280815317 |
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9786610815319 |
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6610815313 |
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0521542308 (Paper) |
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0521834449 (Cloth) |
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9780521834445 |
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9780521542302 (paperback) |
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