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Adaptations : from text to screen, screen to text / edited by Deborah Cartmell and Imelda Whelehan London New York: Routledge, 1999.
Call No: 753 ADAAuthor: Cartmell, Deborah ; Whelehan, Imelda Source: US/UKPlace: London New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1999PhysDes: xvii, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: ADAPTATIONS ; ADAPTATIONS. AUSTEN, JANE ; ADAPTATIONS. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM ; ANIMATION ; BATMAN IN FILMS ; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA ; TELEVISION IN FILMS ; CAMPION, JANE ; BATMAN [TV] (US, 1965-67) ; SCARLET LETTER, THE (US, Roland Joffe, 1995) ; SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (US, Ang Lee, 1995) ; EMMA (UK, Douglas McGrath, 1996) ; CLUELESS (US, Amy Heckerling, 1995) ; LITTLE WOMEN (US, George Cukor, 1933) ; LITTLE WOMEN (US, Gillian Armstrong, 1994) ; LITTLE WOMEN (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1948) ; NAKED LUNCH (CN/UK, David Cronenberg, 1991) ; SCHINDLER'S LIST (US, Steven Spielberg, 1993) ; TRAINSPOTTING (UK, Danny Boyle, 1996) ; ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992) ; PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993) ; PORTRAIT OF A LADY, THE (UK/US, Jane Campion, 1996) ; BATMAN (US, Tim Burton, 1989) ; [ONE HUNDRED AND ONE] 101 DALMATIANS (US, Stephen Herek, 1996) Summary: "Adaptations surveys the key approaches and debates surrounding adaptation, and explores why adaptations of both 'high' and 'low' cultural texts have become increasingly popular. Beginning with the history of Shakespeare on film, from Olivier's and Branagh's Hamlet, contributors examine screen versions of literary classics, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women to Thomas Keneally's Schindler's Ark and Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting. Adaptations goes on to consider adaptation in reverse: How writers like Virginia Woolf incorporated cinematic elements into their work, and explains why there had to be a novel of Jane Campion's The Piano. Contributors examine adaptations from comics to film, such as the Batman movies, Star Trek's incarnations as a long-running tv series, and then as a sequence of movies, and 101 Dalmations' [sic] move from children's novel to cartoon to live-action film." - BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-238) and indexISBN: 041516737X (hbk); 0415167388 (pbk); 041516737X (hardcover : alk. paper); 0415167388 (pbk : alk. paper)LON: 14255526Contents: Part 1: an overview -- Adaptations: the contemporary dilemmas / Imelda Whelehan; Part 2: from text to screen -- Introduction / Deborah Cartmell -- The Shakespeare on screen industry / Deborah Cartmell -- Conservative Austen, radical Austen: Sense and Sensibility from text to screen / Julian North -- From Emma to Clueless: taste, pleasure and the scene of history / Esther Sonnet -- Imagining the puritan body: the 1995 cinematic version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter / Roger Bromley -- Four Little Women: three films and a novel / Pat Kirkham and Sarah Warren -- Will Hollywood never learn? David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch / Nicholas Zurbrugg -- Adapting the Holocaust: Schindler's List, intellectuals and public knowledge / Mark Rawlinson -- Speaking out: the transformations of trainspotting / Derek Paget; Part 3: from screen to text and multiple adaptations -- Introduction / Deborah Cartmell -- Orlando: coming across the divide / Sharon Ouditt -- Jane Campion and the limits of literary cinema / Ken Gelder -- The wrath of the original cast: translating embodied television character to other media / Ina Rae Hark -- Batman: one life, many faces / Will Brooker -- 'Thou art translated': analysing animated adaptation / Paul Wells -- 'A doggy fairy tale': the film metamorphoses of The Hundred and One Dalmatians / Imelda Whelehan
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Clueless : American youth in the 1990s / Lesley Speed Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2018.
Call No: 79 CLU SPEAuthor: Speed, Lesley Edition: 2018Place: Abingdon, Oxon, UKPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2018PhysDes: 118 pages : illustrated ; 23 cmSeries: cinema and youth culturesSubject: CLUELESS (US, Amy Heckerling, 1995) ; TEEN FILMS Summary: Clueless: American Youth in the 1990s is a timely contribution to the increasingly prominent academic field of youth film studies. The book draws on the social context to the film’s release, a range of film industry perspectives including marketing, audience reception and franchising, as well as postmodern theory and feminist film theory to assert the cultural and historical significance of Amy Heckerling’s film and reaffirm its reputation as one of the defining teen films of the 1990s.
Lesley Speed examines how the film channels aspects of Anita Loos’ 1925 novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the 1960s television series Gidget and Jane Austen’s Emma, to present a heightened, optimistic view of contemporary American teenage life. Although seemingly apolitical, Speed makes the case for Clueless as a feminist exploration of relationships between gender, comedy and consumer culture, centring on a contemporary version of the ‘dumb blonde’ type. The film is also proved to embrace diversity in its depiction of African American characters and contributing to an increase in gay teenagers on screen. Lesley Speed concludes her analysis by tracking the rise of the Clueless franchise and cult following. Both helped to cement the film in popular consciousness, inviting fans to inhabit its fantasy world through spinoff narratives on television and in print, public viewing rituals, revivalism and vintage fashion. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781138681217Contents: Preface to the series.-- Acknowledgements. -- Introduction.-- 1. Building a fantasy that you could live in: production history and initial reception, Director and writer Amy Heckerling. -- Development and Production. -- Clueless sources. -- Production. -- Release and reception. -- 2. ‘A way normal life’: Clueless as a teen film of the 1990s. -- Clueless, the 1990s and youth culture. -- Youth, adulthood and history. -- ‘It looks like the best-tasting bubble gum’: the world of Clueless. -- 3. All the young girls and dudes: gender and sexuality. -- Girls in teen film. -- Feminism, consumer culture and girls. -- Ethnicity. -- Sexuality. -- 4. ‘It’s, like, a famous quote’: Adaptation, franchise and cult film. -- Clueless as adaptation. -- The Clueless franchise. -- Inhabiting the storyworld: Clueless as a cult film. -- Conclusion: Clueless in the popular cultural landscape. -- Bibliography. -- Appendix: The Clueless novelisations. -- Index
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Film adaptation / edited and with an introduction by James Naremore New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, c2000.
Call No: 753 FILAuthor: Naremore, James Source: USPlace: New Brunswick, N.JPublisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: c2000PhysDes: x, 258 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Series: Rutgers depth of field seriesSubject: ADAPTATIONS ; ADAPTATIONS. AUSTEN, JANE ; ADAPTATIONS. DICKENS, CHARLES ; ADAPTATIONS. DOSTOEVSKIJ, FEDOR MIHAJLOVIC ; ADAPTATIONS. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM ; CENSORSHIP ; LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA ; KUROSAWA AKIRA ; RENOIR, JEAN ; AMERICAN TRAGEDY, AN (Josef von Sternberg, 1931) ; CLUELESS (US, Amy Heckerling, 1995) ; DAVID COPPERFIELD (US, George Cukor, 1935) ; DAY IN THE COUNTRY, A [PARTIE DE CAMPAGNE, UNE] (FR, Jean Renoir, 1946 [prod. 1936]) ; DAY IN THE COUNTRY, A [PARTIE DE CAMPAGNE, UNE] (FR, Jean Renoir, 1946 [prod. 1936]) ; EMMA (UK, Douglas McGrath, 1996) ; HOW TASTY WAS MY LITTLE FRENCHMAN (BL, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, 1971) Summary: "The essays in this volume, most of which have never before been published, raise fundamental questions about cinema and adaptation: what is the nature of the "literary" and the "cinematic"? Why do so many of the films described as adaptations seem to derive from canonical literature rather than from other sources? How do the different media affect the ways stories are told? Film Adaptation offers fresh approaches to the art, theory, and cultural politics of movie adaptations, even challenging what is meant by the term "adaptation" itself. Contributors examine the process of adaptation in both theory and practice, discussing a wide variety of films. James Naremore's introduction provides an accessible historical overview of the field and reveals the importance of adaptation study to the many different academic disciplines now attracted to the analysis of film as commodity, document, and cultural artifact." -- BOOK BLURB
(Contributors are André Bazin, Dudley Andrew, Robert B. Ray, Robert Stam, Richard Maltby, Guerric DeBona, O. M. B., Gilberto Perez, Michael Anderegg, Matthew Bernstein, Darlene J. Sadlier, Jonathan Rosenbaum, and Lesley Stern.)Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-243) and indexISBN: 0813528135Contents: -- introduction: film and the reign of adaptation -- adaptation, or the cinema as digest -- adaptation -- The field of "literature and film" -- The dialogics of adaptation -- "to prevent the prevalent type of book" Censorship and adaptation in Hollywood, 1924-1934 -- Dickens, the Depression and MGM's David Copperfield -- Landscape and fiction: A day in the country -- Welles/Shakespeare/film an overview -- high and low: Art cinema and pulp fiction in Yokohama -- The politics of adaptation: how tasty was my little frenchman -- Two forms of adaptation: housekeeping and naked lunch -- Emma in Los Angeles: remaking the book and the city -- annotated bibliography -- contributors -- index --ID2: 291
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Flicks : studying film as text / Dinah Partridge, Peter Hughes Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Call No: 512.1 PARAuthor: Partridge, Dinah ; Hughes, Peter, 1949 Edition: 2nd edSource: ATPlace: MelbournePublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1998PhysDes: viii, 248 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cmSubject: TEACHING MATERIALS ; PRINCESS BRIDE, THE (US, Rob Reiner, 1987) ; ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS [TV] (UK, 1992 - 1996) ; BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) ; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) ; CHARACTERIZATION IN FILMS ; CLUELESS (US, Amy Heckerling, 1995) ; COOLBAROO CLUB, THE (AT, Roger Scholes, 1996) ; [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964) ; EMMA (UK, Douglas McGrath, 1996) ; FRONTLINE [TV] (AT, 1994- ) ; GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981) ; GENRES ; HANDMAID'S TALE, THE (US/GW, Volker Schlondorff, 1990) ; HEARTS OF DARKNESS : A FILMMAKERS APOCALYPSE (US, Fax Bahr & George Hinkenlooper, 1991) ; HOUSEKEEPING (US, Bill Forsyth, 1987) ; MITT LIV SOM HUND (SW, Lass Hallestrom, 1985) ; MURIEL'S WEDDING (AT, P.J. Hogan, 1994) ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; NOT FOURTEEN AGAIN (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1996) ; ONCE WERE WARRIORS (NZ, Lee Tamahori, 1994) ; POLICE ON TV ; PROOF (AT, Jocelyn Moorhouse, 1991) ; REALISM IN FILMS ; SCHINDLER'S LIST (US, Steven Spielberg, 1993) ; SECRET GARDEN, THE (US, Agnieszka Holland, 1993) ; SEINFELD [TV] (US, 1990-98) ; SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (US, Ang Lee, 1995) ; SHAME (AT, Steve Jodrell, 1988) ; SHINE (AT/UK, Scott Hicks, 1996) ; SITUATION COMEDY ; STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977) ; WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO + JULIET (US, Baz Luhrmann, 1996) Notes: BibliographyISBN: 0195506774 : $26.95; 0195506774 (pbk.)LON: 13455821ID2: 290
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Jane Austen in Hollywood / Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield, editors Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c1998.
Call No: 753AUS JANAuthor: Greenfield, Sayre N., 1956 ; Troost, Linda, 1957 Source: USPlace: LexingtonPublisher: University Press of KentuckyPubDate: c1998PhysDes: 202 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: ADAPTATIONS. AUSTEN, JANE ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; MASCULINITY IN FILMS ; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; MEN IN FILMS ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; THOMPSON, EMMA ; EMMA (UK, Douglas McGrath, 1996) ; CLUELESS (US, Amy Heckerling, 1995) ; SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (US, Ang Lee, 1995) ; PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (US, Robert Z. Leonard, 1940) ; PRIDE AND PREJUDICE [TV] (UK/US, Simon Langton, 1995) ; PERSUASION (UK, Roger Michell, 1995) Summary: "In 1995 and 1996 six film or television adaptations of Jane Austen's novels were produced - an unprecedented number. More amazing, all were critical and/or box office successes. What accounts for this explosion of interest? Much of the appeal of these films lies in our nostalgic desire at the end of the millenium for an age of greater politeness and sexual reticence. Austen's ridicule of deceit and pretentiousness also appeals to our fin de siècle sensibilities. The novels were changed, however, to enhance their appeal to a wide popular audience, and the revisions reveal much about our own culture and its values. These recent productions espouse explicitly twentieth-century feminist notions and reshape the Austenian hero to make him conform to modern expectations. Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield present fourteen essays examining the phenomenon of Jane Austen as cultural icon, providing thoughtful and sympathetic insights on the films through a variety of critical approaches. The contributors debate whether these productions enhance or undercut the subtle feminism that Austen promoted in her novels." - BOOK JACKETNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-187) and indexISBN: 0813120845 (alk. paper)LON: 13891695Contents: Introduction: watching ourselves watching / Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield -- Out of the drawing room, onto the lawn / Rachel M. Brownstein -- Balancing the courtship hero: masculine emotional display in film adaptation of Austen's novels / Cheryl L. Nixon -- Misrepresenting Jane Austen's ladies: revising texts (and history) to sell films / Rebecca Dickson -- Austen, class and the American market / Carol M. Dole -- Jane Austen, film, and the pitfalls of postmodern nostalgia / Amanda Collins -- "A correct taste in landscape": Pemberley as fetish and commodity / H. Elisabeth Ellington -- Mr. Darcy's body: privileging the female gaze / Lisa Hopkins -- Emma becomes Clueless / Suzanne Ferriss -- "As if!": translating Austen's ironic narrator to film / Nora Nachumi -- Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility as gateway to Austen's novel / M. Casey Diana -- "Piracy is our only option": postfeminist intervention in Sense and Sensibility / Kristin Flieger Samuelian -- Feminist implications of the silver screen Austen / Devoney Looser -- Mass marketing Jane Austen: men, women, and courtship in two film adaptations / Deborah Kaplan
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Sydney studies in English Sydney, N.S.W.: University of Sydney, 1975/76.
Call No: 753 SYDCorpAuthor: University of Sydney. Dept. of English; English Association. Sydney BranchPlace: Sydney, N.S.W.Publisher: University of SydneyPubDate: 1975/76PhysDes: v. ; 21 cmSubject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA ; ADAPTATIONS ; FORBIDDEN PLANET (US, Fred McLeod Wilcox, 1956) ; TEMPEST (US, Paul Mazursky, 1982) ; EMMA (UK, Douglas McGrath, 1996) ; CLUELESS (US, Amy Heckerling, 1995) ; LITTLE DORRIT (UK, Christine Edzard, 1987) ; PORTRAIT OF A LADY, THE (UK/US, Jane Campion, 1996) ; X-FILES, THE [TV] (US, 1993-) Notes: "Jointly sponsored by the Department of English, University of Sydney and the English Association (Sydney Branch)"ISSN: 0156-5419LON: abn84028394; 3052804
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Teen Dreams : reading teen film from Heathers to Veronica Mars / Roz Kaveney London ; New York: I.B. Tauris, copyright 2006.
Call No: 451-053.6 KAVAuthor: Kaveney, Roz Source: US/UKPlace: London ; New YorkPublisher: I.B. TaurisPubDate: copyright 2006PhysDes: viii, 191 p. ; 24 cm.Subject: DRUGS IN FILMS ; FAMILY IN FILMS ; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA ; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; TEEN FILM ; TEEN FILMS ; YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA ; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS ; CLUELESS (US, Amy Heckerling, 1995) ; HEATHERS (US, Michael Lehmann, 1989) ; VERONICA MARS [TV] (US, 2004) Summary: "Starting with the groundbreaking John Hughes movies of the 1980s, and with Lehman and Waters' sardonic comedy Heathers, Kaveney discusses the evolution of themes like the Mean Girl and the loss of virginity. She examines the metamorphosis of Jane Austen's novel Emma into the Beverly Hills comedy Clueless and the way the American Pie trilogy has subverted the gross-out sex comedy into a lesson in sexual manners. She looks at the link between these films and some of the most innovative teen television of the last two decades, including Popular, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the teen detective show Veronica Mars. In the process, she demonstrates how teen films and tv series deal with the tragic and comic undersides of the American dream."--BOOK JACKET.Notes: Includes indexes.ISBN: 9781845111847Contents: Teen dreams: the critic at the prom -- John Hughes and the creation of a genre -- The friends who are bad for you: Heathers -- The heirs of Heather: Cordelia, Nicole and other mean girls -- The canon as teen dream: Clueless and others -- The trouble with boys -- On being good at things: female competence and sexuality -- Watching the teen detective: Veronica Mars.
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