| Description |
xv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 199-203. |
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Filmography: pages 196-198. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Jews without manners : Novel : Yekl: a tale of the New York ghetto (1896, Abraham Cahan). Film : Hester Street (1975, Joan Micklin Silver) -- New woman gets the old treatment : Novel : Susan Leonox: her fall and rise (1917, David Graham Phillips). Film : Susan Lenox: her fall and rise (1931, Robert Z. Leonard) -- Special delivery : Novel : Postman always rings twice (1934, James M. Cain). Film : Postman always rings twice (1946, Tay Garnett) -- Marathon man/marathon woman : Novel : They shoot horses, don't they? (1935, Horace McCoy). Film : They shoot horses, don't they? (1969, Sidney Pollack) -- Wages of sin : Novel : Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1927, 1935, B. Traven). Film : Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, John Huston) -- Murder in the first degree : Novel : Paths of glory (1935, Humphrey Cobb). Film : Paths of glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick) -- Gangster as existential hero : Novel : Low company (1937, Daniel Fuchs). Film : Gangster (1957, Gordon Wiles) -- Those who walk in darkness : Novel : Pawnbroker (1961, Edward Lewis Wallant). Film : Pawnbroker (1965, Sidney Lumet) |
| Subject |
American fiction -- Film adaptations.
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American fiction -- Film adaptations. |
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Roman américain -- Adaptations cinématographiques et télévisées. |
| Genre/Form |
Film adaptations.
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Film adaptations.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Miller, Gabriel, 1948- Screening the novel. New York : F. Ungar Pub. Co., c1980 (OCoLC)565282634 |
| ISBN |
0804426228 |
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9780804426220 |
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