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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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Frank Capra : the catastrophe of success / by Joseph McBride New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Call No: 81CAP MCBAuthor: McBride, Joseph Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Simon & SchusterPubDate: 1992PhysDes: 768 p. : ill. ; 26 cmSubject: COMEDIES ; AUTHORSHIP ; COLUMBIA PICTURES ; DIRECTORS ; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; CAPRA, FRANK ; COHN, HARRY ; RISKIN, ROBERT ; IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934) ; IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946) ; LADY FOR A DAY (US, Frank Capra, 1933) ; LOST HORIZON (US, Frank Capra, 1937) ; MEET JOHN DOE (US, Frank Capra, 1941) ; [MISTER] MR DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (US, Frank Capra, 1936) ; [MISTER] MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (US, Frank Capra, 1939) ; WHY WE FIGHT SERIES (US, 1942-44) ; YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (US, Frank Capra, 1938) Summary: "FRANK CAPRA: THE CATASTROPHE OF SUCCESS is the first major biography of one of the greatest directors in Hollywood history, the man behind such classic films as IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, and IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE [...] FRANK CAPRA: THE CATASTROPHE OF SUCCESS is the result of more than seven years of work. It is drawn from extensive archival research and interviews with 175 people who knew or worked with Capra, as well as many hours of interviews with Capra himself. In this biography, Joseph McBride gives us the definitive portrait of one of our greatest filmmakers." [Taken from book jacket]Notes: Filmography: p. [117]-731; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0671797883 (pbk.); 0671734946 : $27.50LON: abn92038576; 8711584
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The Hollywood social problem film : madness, despair, and politics from the Depression to the fifties / Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.
Call No: 744 ROFAuthor: Roffman, Peter, 1950 ; Purdy, Jim, Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1981PhysDes: x, 364 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS. USA ; DEPRESSION IN FILMS ; DRUGS IN FILMS ; MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN FILMS ; BAD GUYS ; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA ; FALLEN WOMEN IN FILMS ; DELINQUENTS IN FILMS ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA ; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; BLACKLISTING. USA ; JOURNALISTS IN FILMS ; POLITICAL PERSONALITIES IN FILMS ; POPULISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; RACIAL ISSUES IN FILMS ; RURAL LIFE IN FILMS ; WARNER BROS. ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; LANG, FRITZ ; BORZAGE, FRANK ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; GARFIELD, JOHN ; CAPRA, FRANK ; VIDOR, KING ; BLACK LEGION (US, Archie L. Mayo, 1936) ; CABIN IN THE COTTON, THE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1932) ; DEAD END (US, William Wyler, 1937) ; FORCE OF EVIL (US, Abraham Polonsky, 1948) ; GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE (US, Gregory La Cava, 1933) ; STATE'S ATTORNEY (US, George Archainbaud, 1932) ; SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (US, Preston Sturges, 1942) ; THEY WON'T FORGET (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1937) ; THREE COMRADES (US, Frank Borzage, 1938) ; GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (US, Elia Kazan, 1947) ; I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE F.B.I. (US, Gordon Douglas, 1951) ; LAWLESS, THE (US, Joseph Losey, 1950) ; LAWYER MAN (US, Wilhelm Dieterle, 1932) ; LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? (US, Frank Borzage, 1934) ; MASSACRE (US, Alan Crosland, 1933) ; MEET JOHN DOE (US, Frank Capra, 1941) ; MOUTHPIECE, THE (US, James Flood & Elliott Nugent, 1932) ; OUR DAILY BREAD (US, King Vidor, 1934) ; PINKY (US, Elia Kazan, 1949) ; PRESIDENT VANISHES, THE (US, William Wellman, 1934) ; RIFFRAFF (US, J. Walter Ruben, 1936) ; [MISTER] MR DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (US, Frank Capra, 1936) ; [MISTER] MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (US, Frank Capra, 1939) ; MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936) ; MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947) ; MORTAL STORM, THE (US, Frank Borzage, 1940) ; MY MAN GODFREY (US, Gregory La Cava, 1936) ; ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954) ; BODY AND SOUL (US, Robert Rossen, 1947) ; GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940) ; GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940) ; HEROES FOR SALE (US, William A. Wellman, 1933) ; I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1932) ; IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946) ; SALT OF THE EARTH (US, Herbert J. Biberman, 1954) ; YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (US, Fritz Lang, 1937) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 319-329; Filmography: p. 331-351ISBN: 0253127076; 0253202612 (pbk.)LON: 1763505
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