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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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Christmas at the movies : images of Christmas in American, British and European cinema / edited by Mark Connelly London ; New York: I.B. Tauris, 2000.
Call No: 743 CONPlace: London ; New YorkPublisher: I.B. TaurisPubDate: 2000PhysDes: 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject: CHRISTMAS IN FILMS ; REMEMBER THE NIGHT (UK, Mitchell Leisen, 1939) ; SCROOGE (UK, Henry Edwards, 1935) ; CHRISTMAS CAROL, A (US, Edwin L. Marin, 1938) ; SCROOGE [CHRISTMAS CAROL, A] (US, Brian Desmond Hurst, 1951) ; SCROOGE (UK, Ronald Neame, 1970) ; CHRISTMAS CAROL, A (UK, Clive Donner, 1984) ; SCROOGED (US, Richard Donner, 1988) ; MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE (US, Brian Henson, 1992) ; IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946) ; MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, THE (US, William Keighley, 1941) ; HOLIDAY INN (US, Mark Sandrich, 1942) ; CHRISTMAS UNDER FIRE (UK, Harry Watt, 1941) ; TURKEY TIME (UK, Tom Walls, 1933) ; HOLLY AND THE IVY, THE (UK, George More O'Ferrall, 1953) ; CHEATERS, THE (US, Joe Kane, 1945) ; MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (US, Les Mayfield, 1994) ; MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (US, George Seaton, 1947) ; SANTA CLAUSE, THE (US, John Pasquin, 1994) ; ERNEST SAVES CHRISTMAS (US, John Cherry, 1988) ; SANTA CLAUSE: THE MOVIE (US, Jeannot Szwarc, 1985) ; GREMLINS (US, Joe Dante, 1984) ; SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT (US, Charles E. Sellier Jr., 1984) ; SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT PART II (US, Lee Harry, 1987) ; TIM BURTON'S THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (US, Harry Selick, 1993) ; CHRISTMAS STORY, A (US, Bob Clark, 1983) ; LETHAL WEAPON (US, Richard Donner, 1987) ; DIE HARD (US, John McTiernan, 1988) ; DIE HARD 2 (US, Renny Harlin, 1990) ; HOME ALONE (US, Chris Columbus, 1990) ; HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK (US, Chris Columbus, 1992) ; LONG KISS GOODNIGHT, THE (US, Renny Harlin, 1996) ; JINGLE ALL THE WAY (US, Brian Levant, 1996) ; MERLUSSE (FR, Marcel Pagnol, 1935) ; CHATEAU DE MA MERE, LE (FR, Yves Robert, 1990) ; GRANDE ILLUSION, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1937) ; VIE EST UN LONG FLEUVE TRANQUILLE, LA (FR, Etienne Chatiliez, 1988) ; ELISA (FR, Jean Becker, 1994) ; KARNAVALNAIA NOCH (UR, Eldar Ryazanov, 1956) ; IRONIYA SUDBY ILI S LYOGKIM PAROM (UR, Eldar Ryazanov, 1975) ; PLACIDO (SP, Luis Garcia Berlanga, 1961) Summary: A look at depictions of Christmas across various national cinemas and genres throughout the 20th century.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Filmography: p. ([223]-232)ISBN: 1860643973Contents: -- God Bless Us, Every One: Movie Adaptations Of A Christmas Carol / James Chapman -- A Hollywood Carol's Wonderful Life / Jonathan Munby -- Dreaming Of Christmas: Hollywood And The Second World War / H. Mark Glancy -- Christmas Under Fire: The Wartime Christmas In Britain / Sarah Street -- Crisis At Christmas: Turkey Time, The Holly And The Ivy, The Cheaters / Jeffrey Richards -- Santa Claus: The Movie / Mark Connelly -- You Better Watch Out: Christmas In The Horror Film / Kim Newman -- 'Peace On Earth, Goodwill To All Men': The Depiction Of Christmas In Moden Hollywood Films / Rowana Agajanian -- Christmas In French Cinema / Guy Austin -- Father Frost On 31 December: Christmas And New Year In Soviet And Russian Cinema / Birgit Beumers -- Satirizing The Spanish Christmas: Placido / Peter William Evans
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