'In my mind's eye': Shakespeare on the screen -- Historian of fine consciences: Henry James and the cinema -- Another fine mess: D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy on film -- Age of doublethink: George Orwell and the cinema -- Pinter's Go-between -- Camera eye of James Agee -- Kindred spirits: analogies between the film and literary artist: Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin; Mark Twain and John Ford; Graham Greene and Alfred Hitchcock; Joseph Conrad and Orson Welles -- Adaptation as criticism: four films: Great expectations; Death in Venice; Barry Lyndon; The French lieutenant's woman -- Bio-pics: the literary life on film.
