True to the spirit : film adaptation and the question of fidelity /
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. |
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| Description: | x, 250 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/8303467 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Bazinian Adaptation: The Butcher Boy as Example
- 1. The Economies of Adaptation
- 2. Literary Appropriation and Translation in Early Cinema: Adapting Gerhardt HauptmannÆs Atlantis in 1913
- 3. Hearts of Darkness: Joseph Conrad and Orson Welles
- 4. Max Ophuls's Auteurist Adaptations
- 5. To Have and Have Not: An Adaptive System
- 6. Happier with Dreams: Constructing the Lisbon Girls through Nondiegetic Sound in The Virgin Suicides
- 7. Universalizing a Nation and the Adaptation of Trainspotting
- 8. Getting Away with Homage: The Alternative Universes of Ghost World
- 9. Indexing an Icon: T. E. LawrenceÆs Seven Pillars of Wisdom and David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia
- 10. Shades of Horror: Fidelity and Genre in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
- 11. Contempt Revisited: Godard at the Margins of Adaptation
- Afterword: Adaptation as a Philosophical Problem
- Contributors
- Index