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Call No: 753.1 ADA
Author: Harrison, Stephanie
Edition: First edition
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
PubDate: c2005
PhysDes: xix, 619 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: 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 online
ISBN: 1400053145
Contents: -- 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 --

Author: Grimes, Dennis
Subject: FREAKS (US, Tod Browning, 1932)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: BLOODSUCKING FREAKS (US, Joel M. Reed, 1982)

Call No: F722.73 PEA
Author: Peary, Danny
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Dell Publishing
PubDate: 1981
PhysDes: xiii, 402 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Subject: CULT FILMS; AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD [AGUIRRE, DER ZORN GOTTES] (GW, Werner Herzog, 1972); FREAKS (US, Tod Browning, 1932); [FORTY-SECOND] 42ND STREET (US, Lloyd Bacon, 1933)
ISBN: 0440516471
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

Call No: 771.1 HAW
Author: Hawkins, Joan, 1953
Place: Minneapolis
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: c2000
PhysDes: xiii, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: AVANT-GARDE FILMS; HORROR FILMS; FRANJU, GEORGES; MORRISSEY, PAUL; WARHOL, ANDY; RAPE (US, Yoko Ono & John Lennon, 1968); YEUX SANS VISAGE, LES (FR/IT, Georges Franju, 1959); FREAKS (US, Tod Browning, 1932)
Notes: "Select Filmography and Videography": p; Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index
ISBN: 0816634130 (alk. paper); 0816634149 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 21283291

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: DANGER FREAKS [TV] (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1975)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings; Press kit
Subject: [EIGHT] 8 LEGGED FREAKS (US, Ellory Elkayem, 2002)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: FREAKS (US, Tod Browning, 1932)

Subject: FREAKS (US, Tod Browning, 1932)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: FREAKS UNCENSORED (US, Ari Roussimoff, 1999)

Call No: 67(04) ROS
Author: Rosenbaum, Jonathan
Place: Berkeley
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: 1995
PhysDes: xvii, 202 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; Rosenbaum, Jonathan; BROOKS, RICHARD; NEWMAN, PAUL; PAGE, GERALDINE; BIRD OF PARADISE (US, Delmer Davves, 1951); FREAKS (US, Tod Browning, 1932); ON MOONLIGHT BAY (US, Roy Del Ruth, 1951); PLAYTIME (FR, Jacques Tati, 1967); SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH (US, Richard Brooks, 1961); ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, THE (UK, Jim Sharman, 1975); GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (US, Howard Hawks, 1953)
Notes: Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1980; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0520089073 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 11018207

Call No: 735.2 TOW
Author: Towlson, Jon
Source: US
Place: Jefferson, North Carolina
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: vii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subject: HORROR FILMS; FRANKENSTEIN (US, James Whale, 1931); FREAKS (US, Tod Browning, 1932); CAT PEOPLE (US, Jacques Tourneur, 1942); CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE, THE (US, Gunther von Fritsch & Robert Wise, 1944); NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968); CRAZIES, THE (US, George A. Romero, 1973); LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (US, Wes Craven, 1972); TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE (US, Tobe Hooper, 1974); PARASITE MURDERS, THE (CN, David Cronenberg, 1975); DAWN OF THE DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1979); HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER, PART 2 (US, Chuck Parello, 1997); HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER (US, John McNaughton, 1986); AMERICAN PSYCHO (US, Mary Harron, 1999); TEETH (US, Mitchell Lichtenstein, 2007)
Summary: "This book argues that a succession of filmmakers working in horror have used the genre to challenge the status quo. Spanning the decades from the 1930s onwards this critical text examines the work of producers and directors as varied as George A. Romero, Pete Walker, Michael Reeves, Herman Cohen, Wes Craven and Brian Yuzna"-- [Extract taken from the back of the book] --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Also issued online
ISBN: 9780786474691
Contents: Introduction -- Anti-eugenics: Frankenstein (1931) and Freaks (1932) -- anti-1940s home front propaganda: Cat people (1942) and The curse of the Cat people (1944) -- Anti-1950s Cold War conformity: the films of Herman Cohen -- Anti-establishment 1960s-1970s Britain: the films of Michael Reeves and Pete Walker -- Anti-Vietnam: Night of the living dead (1968), Deathdream (1972) and The crazies (1973) -- Anti-Hollywood violence and dark counterculture: Last house on the left (1972) and The Texas chain saw massacre (1974) -- Counterculture revolution: Shivers (1975), Blue Sunshine (1978) and Dawn of the dead (1978) -- Anti-"reaganomics": Henry-portrait of a serial killer (1986) and American psycho (2000) -- Anti-1990s materialism: Brian Yuzna and Splatstick -- Anti-new puritanism: Teeth (2007) and American Mary (2012) -- Afterword: Subversive horror cinema post-9/11.

Author: Gordon, Herb
Subject: FREAKS (US, Tod Browning, 1932)