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Adaptations: from short story to big screen : 35 great stories that have inspired great films / edited by Stephanie Harrison New York: Three Rivers Press, c2005.
Call No: 753.1 ADAAuthor: Harrison, Stephanie Edition: First editionSource: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Three Rivers PressPubDate: c2005PhysDes: xix, 619 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: ADAPTATIONS ; LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA ; SHORT CUTS (US, Robert Altman, 1993) ; BLOWUP (UK/IT, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966) ; FACE IN THE CROWD, A (US, Elia Kazan, 1957) ; REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) ; [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968) ; A.I: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (US, Steven Spielberg, 2001) ; MINORITY REPORT (US, Steven Spielberg, 2002) ; FREAKS (US, Tod Browning, 1932) ; FLY, THE (US, Kurt Neumann, 1958) ; RE-ANIMATOR (US, Stuart Gordon, 1985) ; STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939) ; MAN CALLED HORSE, A (US, Elliot Silverstein, 1970) ; SMOKE SIGNALS (US, Chris Eyre, 1998) ; AMERICAN SPLENDOR (US, Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini, 2003) ; GHOST WORLD (US, Terry Zwigoff, 2001) ; ALL ABOUT EVE (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950) ; MEET JOHN DOE (US, Frank Capra, 1941) ; WILD ONE, THE (US, Laslo Benedek, 1953) ; TOMORROW (US, Joseph Anthony, 1972) ; BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938) ; SWIMMER, THE (US, Frank Perry, 1968) ; KILLERS, THE (US, Robert Siodmak, 1946) ; FALLEN IDOL, THE (UK, Carol Reed, 1948) ; MEMENTO (US, Christopher Nolan, 2000) ; CHRISTMAS STORY, A (US, Bob Clark, 1983) ; FIELD OF DREAMS (US, Phil Alden Robinson, 1989) ; RASHOMON (JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1950) ; DAMA S SOBACKOJ (UR, Iosif Hejfic, 1960) ; LADY WITH THE LITTLE DOG (UR, Iosif Hejfic, 1960) ; DARK EYES [OCI CIORNIE] (IT/UR, Nikita Mihalkov, 1987) ; DARK EYES [OCI CIORNIE] (IT/UR, Nikita Mihalkov, 1987) ; SMOKE (US, Wayne Wang, 1995) ; JESUS' SON (US, Alison Maclean, 1999) ; IN THE BEDROOM (US, Todd Field, 2001) ; [MISTER] MR BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE (US, H.C. Potter, 1948) ; MY FRIEND FLICKA (US, Harold D. Schuster, 1943) ; LAST TIME I SAW PARIS, THE (US, Richard Brooks, 1954) ; SMOOTH TALK (US/UK, Joyce Chopra, 1985) Summary: "Adaptations gathers together 35 pieces that have been the basis for films, many from giants of American literature (Hemingway, Fitzgerald) and many that have not been in print for decades (the stories that inspired Bringing Up Baby, Meet John Doe, and All About Eve)." "Categorized by genre, and featuring movies by master directors such as Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, Frank Capra, and John Ford, as well as relative newcomers such as Chris Eyre and Christopher Nolan, Adaptations offers insight into the process of turning a short story into a screenplay, one that, when successful, doesn't take drastic liberties with the text upon which it is based, but doesn't mirror its source material too closely either."--BOOK JACKET.Notes: Also issued onlineISBN: 1400053145Contents: -- Jerry and Molly and Sam / Raymond Carver -- Blow-up / Julio Corta´zar -- Your Arkansas traveler / Budd Schulberg -- Rear window / Cornell Woolrich -- The sentinel / Arthur C. Clarke -- Supertoys last all summer long / Brian Aldiss -- The minority report / Philip K. Dick -- Spurs / Tod Robbins -- The fly / George Langelaan -- Herbert West--Reanimator: six shots by moonlight / H.P. Lovecraft -- Stage to Lordsburg / Ernest Haycox -- A man called Horse / Dorothy M. Johnson -- This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona / Sherman Alexie -- The Harvey Pekar name story / Harvey Pekar -- Ghost world-- Chapter 5: "Hubba Hubba" / Daniel Clowes -- The wisdom of Eve / Mary Orr -- A reputation / Richard Edward Connell -- Mr. Blandings builds his castle / Eric Hodgins -- Cyclists' raid / Frank Rooney -- Tomorrow / William Faulkner -- Bringing up Baby / Hagar Wilde -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The swimmer / John Cheever -- The killers / Ernest Hemingway -- The basement room / Graham Greene -- Memento mori / Jonathan Nolan -- Red Ryder nails the Hammond Kid / Jean Shepherd -- My friend Flicka / Mary O'Hara -- Shoeless Joe Jackson comes to Iowa / W.P. Kinsella -- In a grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa -- The lady with the pet dog / Anton Chekhov -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Auggie Wren's Christmas story / Paul Auster -- Emergency / Denis Johnson -- Killings / Andre Dubus --
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BRINGING UP BABY : (US, Howard Hawks, 1938)
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Bringing up Baby / Howard Hawks, director ; Gerald Mast, editor New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1988.
Call No: 79 BRI HAWAuthor: Hawks, Howard ; Mast, Gerald Source: USPlace: New Brunswick, N.J.Publisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: 1988PhysDes: 320 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmSeries: Rutgers films in print ; v. 10.Subject: BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938) Summary: "Bringing Up Baby (1938) is the essence of thirties screwball comedy. It is also quintessential Howard Hawks, treating many of the director's favorite themes, particularly the loving war between the sexes. Bringing Up Baby features Katharine Hepburn as a flaky heiress and Cary Grant as an absentminded paleontologist, roles in which they come into their own as stars and deliver particularly fine comic performances. Pauline Kael has called the film the "American movies' closest equivalent to Restoration comedy." The comparison is based on the quick repartee and witty dialogue, a hallmark of Hawks's work and well conveyed here by Gerald Mast's transcription from the screen." - taken from back coverNotes: Series numbering mistakenly omitted in publishing -- Hawks Filmography 1926-1970: pages 315-318 -- Bibliography: pages [319]-320ISBN: 0813513413Contents: [Introduction] "Everything's Gonna Be All Right" : The Making of Bringing Up Baby -- Howard Hawks: A Biographical Sketch -- [Bringing Up Baby] Credits and Cast -- The Continuity Script -- Script Variations -- "Bringing Up Baby," by Hagar Wilde -- [Interview, Reviews, and Commentaries] Interview with Joseph McBride -- [Reviews] New York Times, Frank S. Nugent -- Variety, "Wear" -- The New Republic, Otis Ferguson -- [Commentaries] The Auteur Theory, Peter Wollen -- Leopards in Connecticut, Stanley Cavell -- Bringing Up Baby, Gerald Mast -- [Filmography and Bibliography] Hawks Filmography, 1926-1970 -- Selected Bibliography
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Cinematic quests for identity : The hero's encounter with the beast / Maria Garcia Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
Call No: 735.7 GARAuthor: Garcia, Maria Edition: 2015Place: Lanham, MarylandPublisher: Rowman & LittlefieldPubDate: 2015PhysDes: 274 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, THE (US, Albert Lewin, 1945) ; SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956) ; DEER HUNTER, THE (US, Michael Cimino, 1978) ; SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE (US, Jonathan Demme, 1991) ; BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938) ; LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941) ; SECRET OF ROAN INISH, THE (US, John Sayles, 1994) ; NATURAL, THE (US, Barry Levinson, 1984) ; MONEYBALL (US, Bennet Miller, 2011) ; FAT GIRL (FR/IT/SP, Catherine Breillat, 2000)
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A MA SOEUR ; BREILLAT, CATHERINE ; BRESSON, ROBERT Summary: Whether embodied in literature, theater, or film, an enduring theme of many artistic works has been the protagonist’s search for identity. Such quests are typically psychological or spiritual journeys and depicted on the screen in a variety of manifestations—endeavors embarked upon to address an emotional trauma or to overcome an obstacle in the hero’s life. Using Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et La Bête as a leitmotif, these pursuits are discussed by author Maria Garcia as encounters with the “Beast.” At the end of their quests, heroes are reborn into their new identities, while the Beast disappears, transforms, or dies.
In Cinematic Quests for Identity: The Hero’s Encounter with the Beast, Garcia examines the cinematic conventions of the male and female search for individuation across several genres. After discussing La Belle et La Bête, the author looks at a number of films including three iconic male journeys—The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Searchers, and The Deer Hunter. Additional chapters focus on The Silence of the Lambs, Bringing Up Baby, The Lady Eve, The Secret of Roan Inish, The Natural, and Moneyball. The book concludes with a consideration of the three fairy tale films by Catherine Breillat—Fat Girl, Bluebeard, and The Sleeping Beauty—and the female characters in several Robert Bresson films, including The Trial of Joan of Arc.
Providing a unique and original perspective on films throughout the world, this provocative book draws upon Jungian thought, as well as several literary traditions including fairy tales, epic poetry, and Greek and Celtic mythology. Aimed at scholars of film and film theory, Cinematic Quests for Identity will also appeal to movie fans interested in a deeper understanding of films that explore a character’s struggle to live a conscious life. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781442246973
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The films of Howard Hawks / by Donald C. Willis Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1975.
Call No: 81HAW WILAuthor: Willis, Donald C. Place: Metuchen, NJPublisher: Scarecrow PressPubDate: 1975PhysDes: viii, 235 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.Subject: HAWKS, HOWARD ; BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938) ; HIS GIRL FRIDAY (US, Howard Hawks, 1940) ; I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE (US, Howard Hawks, 1949) ; MONKEY BUSINESS (US, Howard Hawks, 1952) ; TWENTIETH CENTURY (US, Howard Hawks, 1934) ; BALL OF FIRE (US, Howard Hawks, 1942) ; SONG IS BORN, A (US, Howard Hawks, 1947) ; FIG LEAVES (US, Howard Hawks, 1926) ; MAN'S FAVORITE SPORT? (US, Howard Hawks, 1963) ; RED RIVER (US, Howard Hawks, 1948) ; RIO BRAVO (US, Howard Hawks, 1959) ; RIO LOBO (US, Howard Hawks, 1970) ; EL DORADO (US, Howard Hawks, 1966) ; BIG SKY, THE (US, Howard Hawkes, 1952) ; BIG SLEEP, THE (US, Howard Hawkes, 1946) ; ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (US, Howard Hawks, 1939) ; CEILING ZERO (US, Howard Hawks, 1936) ; CROWD ROARS, THE (US, Howard Hawks, 1932) ; GIRL IN EVERY PORT, A (US, Howard Hawks, 1928) ; TIGER SHARK (US, Howard Hawks, 1932) ; BARBARY COAST (US, Howard Hawks, 1935) ; COME AND GET IT (US, Howard Hawks and William Wyler, 1936) ; SCARFACE (US, Howard Hawks, 1932) ; GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (US, Howard Hawks, 1953) ; CRIMINAL CODE, THE (US, Howard Hawks, 1931) ; LAND OF THE PHARAOHS (US, Howard Hawks, 1955) ; TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (US, Howard Hawks, 1944) ; AIR FORCE (US, Howard Hawks, 1943) ; SARGEANT YORK (US, Howard Hawks, 1941) ; ROAD TO GLORY, THE (US, Howard Hawks, 1936) Summary: The films of Howard Hawks are organised by genre and reviewed to give a sense of the director as auteur.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 0810808609
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The "I" of the camera : essays in film criticism, history, and aesthetics / William Rothman Cambridge [England] New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Call No: 67(04) ROTAuthor: Rothman, William Place: Cambridge [England] New YorkPublisher: Cambridge University PressPubDate: 1988PhysDes: xix, 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Cambridge studies in filmSubject: USA ; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA ; ADAPTATIONS ; EROTICISM IN FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; RENOIR, JEAN ; BOGART, HUMPHREY ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; GRANT, CARY ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; GUZZETTI, ALFRED ; BACALL, LAUREN ; ASTOR, MARY ; JUDITH OF BETHULIA (US, David Wark Griffith, 1913) ; CITY LIGHTS (US, Charles Chaplin, 1931) ; RED DUST (US, Victor Fleming, 1932) ; STELLA DALLAS (US, King Vidor, 1937) ; BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938) ; RIVER, THE (II/US, Jean Renoir, 1951) ; FAMILY PORTRAIT SITTINGS (US, Alfred Guzzetti, 1976) ; TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (US, Howard Hawks, 1944) ; TRUE HEART SUSIE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1919) ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; REGLE DU JEU, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939) ; VERTIGO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. xviii-xixISBN: 0521368286 (pbk.); 052136048XLON: 5831391
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Lunatics and lovers : a tribute to the giddy and glittering era of the screen's "screwball" and romantic comedies New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, [1973].
Call No: 732 SENAuthor: Sennett, Ted Place: New Rochelle, N.Y.Publisher: Arlington HousePubDate: [1973]PhysDes: 368 p. illus. 24 cmSubject: COMEDIES ; STURGES, PRESTON ; AWFUL TRUTH, THE (US, Leo McCarey, 1937) ; BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938) ; IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934) ; [MISTER] MR DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (US, Frank Capra, 1936) ; YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (US, Frank Capra, 1938) ; HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO (US, Preston Sturges, 1943) Notes: Bibliography: p. [355]-356ISBN: 0870001965LON: 506387
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Romantic comedy in Hollywood : from Lubitsch to Sturges / James Harvey New York: Knopf, 1987.
Call No: 732(73) HARAuthor: Harvey, James, 1929 Edition: 1st edSource: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: KnopfPubDate: 1987PhysDes: xii, 716 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: ACTORS ; COMEDIES ; DIRECTORS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; ROMANTIC COMEDY ; ROMANTIC FILMS. USA ; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS ; STAR SYSTEM ; ARTHUR, JEAN ; ASTAIRE, FRED ; BRACKEN, EDDIE ; CAGNEY, JAMES ; CAPRA, FRANK ; COLBERT, CLAUDETTE ; COOPER, GARY ; DUNNE, IRENE ; GABLE, CLARK ; GRANT, CARY ; HARLOW, JEAN ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; LA CAVA, GREGORY ; Lombard, Carole ; LOY, MYRNA ; LUBITSCH, ERNST ; MCCAREY, LEO ; MCCREA, JOEL ; POWELL, WILLIAM ; ROGERS, GINGER ; Stanwyck, Barbara ; STEVENS, GEORGE ; STURGES, PRESTON ; AWFUL TRUTH, THE (US, Leo McCarey, 1937) ; BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938) ; [FIFTH] 5TH AVENUE GIRL (US, Gregory La Cava, 1939) ; HIS GIRL FRIDAY (US, Howard Hawks, 1940) ; IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934) ; LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941) ; LOVE PARADE, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1929) ; NINOTCHKA (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1939) ; PALM BEACH STORY, THE (US, Preston Sturgess, 1942) ; SHOP AROUND THE CORNER, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1940) ; TROUBLE IN PARADISE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1932) ; UNFAITHFULLY YOURS (US, Preston Sturges, 1948) Summary: "Reading ROMANTIC COMEDY is like going to the movies. It recreates for us movies we've come to love: movies the way they were when, in 1934, four in particular - IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, TWENTIETH CENTURE, THE THIN MAN, and THE GAY DIVORCEE - heralded the arrival of the golden age of Hollywood romantic ("screwball") comedy. Over the next ten years, some of Hollywood's brightest directors and stars turned out some of America's most enduring and beloved films. The screwballs - slangy, irreverent, playful, skeptical, and "powerfully, glamorously in love with love" - constitute a genre of American film unique in its combination of the innocent and the worldly, of swank and slapstick. Now critic James Harvey - writing with brilliance and humor - gives us the first truly comprehensive book about these movies and the people who made them." [Taken from book jacket]Notes: Includes indexISBN: 0394503392LON: 5273661
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The unruly woman : gender and the genres of laughter / by Kathleen Rowe Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1995.
Call No: 451-025 ROWAuthor: Rowe, Kathleen, 1947 Edition: 1st edPlace: Austin, Tex.Publisher: University of Texas PressPubDate: 1995PhysDes: x, 272 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSeries: Texas film studies seriesSubject: COMEDIENNES ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; COMEDIES ; TRANSVESTISM ; MELODRAMA ; SITUATION COMEDY ; CARNIVAL AND THE CINEMA ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; ARNOLD, ROSEANNE ; MISS PIGGY ; WEST, MAE ; STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982) ; ROSEANNE [TV] (US, 1988- ) ; SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959) ; BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938) ; BALL OF FIRE (US, Howard Hawks, 1942) ; BORN YESTERDAY (US, George Cukor, 1950) ; LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941) ; MOONSTRUCK (US, Norman Jewison, 1987) ; PRETTY WOMAN (US, Garry Marshall, 1990) ; SHE DONE HIM WRONG (US, Lowell Sherman, 1933) ; IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934) ; SYLVIA SCARLETT (US, George Cukor, 1935) ; GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (US, Howard Hawks, 1953) Summary: Unruly women have been making a spectacle of themselves in film and on television from Mae West to Roseanne Arnold. In this groundbreaking work, Kathleen Rowe explores how the unruly woman - often a voluptuous, noisy, joke-making rebel or "woman on top" - uses humor and excess to undermine patriarchal norms and authority. At the heart of the book are detailed analyses of two highly successful unruly women - the comedian Roseanne Arnold and the Muppet Miss Piggy. Putting these two figures in a deeper cultural perspective, Rowe also examines the evolution of romantic film comedy from the classical Hollywood period to the present, showing how the comedic roles of actresses such as Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, and Marilyn Monroe offered an alternative, empowered image of women that differed sharply from the "suffering heroine" portrayed in classical melodramas; This feminist study of comedy in film and television offers exciting new opportunities for understanding these media. Written with verve and humor, it will be important reading for a wide popular and scholarly audience in mass communications, gender studies, and popular cultureNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-260) and indexISBN: 0292790724; 0292770693 (pbk.)LON: 94013656; 10900401
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