Literature through film : realism, magic, and the art of adaptation /
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| Author / Creator: | Stam, Robert, 1941- |
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| Imprint: | Malden, MA, USA : Blackwell Pub., 2005. |
| Description: | xvii, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5544473 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Beyond "Fidelity"
- The Question of Genre
- Literary Realism and Magic
- Magic and Realism in the Cinema
- Multicultural Dialogism
- Questions of Method
- 1. A Cervantic Prelude: From Don Quixote to Postmodernism
- Don Quixote on the Screen
- The Realistic Magic of Orson Welles
- From Don Quixote to Postmodernism
- 2. Colonial and Postcolonial Classics: From Robinson Crusoe to Survivor
- The Post-text of Robinson Crusoe
- Decolonizing Crusoe
- Postcolonial Echoes: Castaway and Survivor
- 3. The Self-conscious Novel: From Henry Fielding to David Eggers
- The Reflexive Stylistics of Henry Fielding
- From Novel to Film: Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews
- Richardson's Joseph Andrews
- Machado de Assis: The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
- From Bras Cubas to Postmodern Fiction
- 4. The Proto-cinematic Novel: Metamorphoses of Madame Bovary
- Flaubert's Cinematic Gaze
- Flaubert the Impressionist
- Renoir's Madame Bovary
- The Minnelli Magic
- Chabrolian Realism
- From Bollywood to Woody Allen
- 5. Underground Man and Neurotic Narrators: From Dostoevsky to Nabokov
- Memories of Underdevelopment
- The Metamorphoses of Lolita
- Gendered Narration: Hour of the Star
- 6. Modernism, Adaptation, and the French New Wave
- The New Wave and the Cine-roman
- The Violent Yokings of Hiroshima mon amour
- Contempt: Moravia and Godard
- Don Quixote and the New Wave
- 7. Full Circle: From Cervantes to Magic Realism
- "Magic Realism:" From Literature to Film
- Carnivalesque Anthropophagy
- The "Mother" of Magic Realism: Macunaima
- Macunaima: The Film
- Magic Realism a la Bresilienne
- Marquezian Magic
- Carpentier: "The Marvelous American Real"
- Conclusion
- Index
