New York: Ungar, 1978.
Call No: 753.4 MOD
Author: Peary, Gerald; Shatzkin, Roger
Place: New York
Publisher: Ungar
PubDate: 1978
PhysDes: xii, 461 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Series: Ungar Film Library
Subject: ADAPTATIONS; LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA; ALL THE KINGS MEN (US, Robert Rossen, 1949); BIG SLEEP, THE (US, Howard Hawkes, 1946); BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (US, Blake Edwards, 1961); CATCH 22 (US, Mike Nichols, 1970); DAY OF THE LOCUST, THE (US, John Schlesinger, 1975); DELIVERANCE (US, John Boorman, 1972); FOUNTAINHEAD, THE (US, King Vidor, 1949); FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS (US, Sam Wood, 1943); GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940); HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, THE (US, Robert Ellis Miller, 1968); HUMAN COMEDY, THE (US, Clarence Brown, 1943); IN THIS OUR LIFE (US, John Huston, 1942); INTRUDER IN THE DUST (US, Clarence Brown, 1949); LAST HURRAH, THE (US, John Ford, 1958); LITTLE BIG MAN (US, Arthur Penn, 1970); LOLITA (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1962); LONELYHEARTS (US, Vincent J. Donehue, 1958); MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM, THE (US, Otto Preminger, 1955); NAKED AND THE DEAD, THE (US, Raoul Walsh, 1958); NATIVE SON (AG, Pierre Chenal, 1951); NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (US, Charles Laughton, 1955); OF MICE AND MEN (US, Lewis Milestone, 1939); OLD MAN AND THE SEA, THE (US, John Sturges, 1958); ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (US, Milos Forman, 1975); RABBIT, RUN (US, Jack Smight, 1970); SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE (US, George Roy Hill, 1972); TARNISHED ANGELS, THE (US, Douglas Sirk, 1957); THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY? (US, Sydney Pollack, 1969); TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (US, Howard Hawks, 1944); TOBACCO ROAD (US, John Ford, 1941); TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, THE (US, John Huston, 1948); WET PARADE, THE (US, Victor Fleming, 1932)
Summary: "Does a movie have the same impact as the novel on which it is based? Here are some of the stimulating - and occasionally surprising - answers to that question. This book is a follow-up to The Classic American Novel and the Movies, which ended in 1929, but it can be read on its own. [This book] covers novels and films from the 1930s to the 1970s, from Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road to James Dickey's Deliverance. In between, many film translations of notable novels are scrutinized - works by such authors as Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, McCullers, Nabokov, Updike, Kesey, and Vonnegut [...] Style, characterisation, theme, and ideology come under review. And we get behind-the-scenes insights into the actual filming of some celebrated novels. Of special value to scholars and students of film: extended filmographies by both author and film title of adaptations of American novels published between 1930 and 1975. In addition, there is a bibliography covering the same period, plus complete rental information on the films themselves." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes index; Filmography: p. 349-428; Bibliography: p. 429-443; Sequel/companion to The Classic American Novel and the Movies, also in the Collection
ISBN: 0804426821 : $14.50. 0804466491 pbk. : $6.95
LON: 78004373; 1250638
