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book		Film adaptation and its discontents : from Gone with the wind to The Passion of the Christ / by Thomas Leitch Baltimore MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2007. Call No: 753 LEI Author: Leitch, Thomas Edition: John Hopkins paperback edition, 2009 Source: US Place: Baltimore MD Publisher: John Hopkins University Press PubDate: 2007 PhysDes: xi, 354 p. ; 24 cm Subject: ADAPTATIONS; ADAPTATIONS. AUSTEN, JANE; ADAPTATIONS. DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN; ADAPTATIONS. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM; ADAPTATIONS. DICKENS, CHARLES; AUTEUR THEORY; AUTHORSHIP; LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA; STONE, OLIVER; GONE WITH THE WIND (US, Victor Fleming, 1939); PASSION OF THE CHRIST, THE (US, Mel Gibson, 2004); PRIDE AND PREJUDICE [TV] (UK/US, Simon Langton, 1995) Summary: "Most books on film adaptation - the relation between films and their literary sources - focus on a series of close one-to-one comparisons between specific films and canonical novels. This volume identifies and investigates a far wider array of problems posed by the process of adaptation. Thomas Leitch considers how the creators of short silent films attempted to give them the weight of literature, what sorts of fidelity are possible in an adaptation of sacred scripture, what it means for an adaptation to pose as an introduction to, rather than a transcription of, a literary classic, and why and how some films have sought impossibly close fidelity to their sources. Leitch's analysis moves beyond literary sources to consider why a small number of adaptors have risen to the status of auteurs and how illustrated books, comic strips, video games, and true stories have been adaptated to the screen." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-338) and index ISBN: 9780801892714 Contents: -- acknowledgments -- 1: Literature versus literacy -- 2: One-reel epics -- 3: The word made film -- 4: Entry-level Dickens -- 5: Between adaptation and allusion -- 6: Exceptional fidelity -- 7: Traditions of quality -- 8: Streaming pictures -- 9: The hero with a hundred faces -- 10: The adapter as auteur -- 11: Postliterary adaptation -- 12: Based on a true story -- notes -- bibliography -- index -- More info
book		Jane Austen in Hollywood / Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield, editors Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c1998. Call No: 753AUS JAN Author: Greenfield, Sayre N., 1956; Troost, Linda, 1957 Source: US Place: Lexington Publisher: University Press of Kentucky PubDate: c1998 PhysDes: 202 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: 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 JACKET Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-187) and index ISBN: 0813120845 (alk. paper) LON: 13891695 Contents: 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 More info
book		Now a major motion picture : film adaptation of literature and drama / Christine Geraghty Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. Call No: 753.1 GER Author: Geraghty, Christine Source: US Place: Lanham, MD Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PubDate: 2008 PhysDes: vii, 223 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm Series: Genre and beyond Subject: ADAPTATIONS; LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA; ADAPTATIONS. AUSTEN, JANE; ADAPTATIONS. BECKETT, SAMUEL; ADAPTATIONS. PROUST, MARCEL; ADAPTATIONS. WOOLF, VIRGINIA; ADAPTATIONS. WILLIAMS TENNESSEE; BAZIN, ANDRE; PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (US, Robert Z. Leonard, 1940); PRIDE AND PREJUDICE [TV] (UK/US, Simon Langton, 1995); PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (UK, Joe Wright, 2005); LAST OF THE MOHICANS, THE (US, Michael Mann, 1992); BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (US, Ang Lee, 2005) Summary: "Going beyond the process of adaptation of literature to film, Geraghty is more interested in the films themselves and how they draw on our sense of recall. While a film reflects its literary source, it also invites comparisons to our memories of and associations with other versions of the original. For example, a viewer may watch the 2005 big-screen production of Pride and Prejudice and look back on the BBC's 1995 mini-series as well as Jane Austen's novel. Adaptations also rely on the conventions of genre, editing, acting, and sound to engage with our recollections-elements that many movie critics tend to forget when focusing solely on faithfulness to the written word."-BOOK JACKET Notes: includes filmography; includes bibliographical references; includes index ISBN: 9780742538214 Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema Contents: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Narrative and Characterization in Classic Adaptations: David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Pride and Prejudice -- 2. Art Cinema, Authorship, and the Impossible Novel: Adaptations of Proust, Woolf, and Joyce -- 3. Tennessee Williams on Film: Space, Melodrama, and Stardom -- 4. Feminism, Authorship, and Genre: Adaptations of the Novels of Edna Ferber and Pearl S. Buck -- 5. Revising the Western: Movement and Description in The Last of the Mohicans and Brokeback Mountain -- 6. Space, Setting, and Mobility in Old New York: The Heiress, The House of Mirth, and Gangs of New York -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- ID2: 87 More info
title clippings file		PRIDE AND PREJUDICE [TV] : (UK/US, Simon Langton, 1995) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE [TV] (UK/US, Simon Langton, 1995) More info

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