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

From Fidelity to History : : Film Adaptations as Cultural Events in the Twentieth Century / / Anne-Marie Scholz.

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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 p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Scholz, Anne-Marie,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Transatlantic Perspectives ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (252 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of 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
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. “Eine Revolution des Films”: The Third Man, The Cold War, and Alternatives to Nationalism and Coca-Colonization in Europe
  • Chapter 2. The Bridge on the River Kwai Revisited: Combat Cinema, American Culture, and the German Past
  • Chapter 3. “Josef K. von 1963”: Orson Welles’s Americanized Version of Th e Trial and the Changing Functions of the Kafkaesque in Postwar West Germany
  • Part II. Postfeminist Relations between Classic Texts and Hollywood Film Adaptations in the U.S. in the 1990s
  • Introduction
  • 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 History
  • Appendix 1. Mediating Apparent and Latent Content (Tables 1 & 2)
  • Appendix 2. Model of Adaptation as a Process of Reception
  • Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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