Analyzing Literature-to-Film Adaptations: A Novelist's Exploration and Guide / Edition 1

by Mary H. Snyder

Overview

The introduction of an academic means for critical analysis of film adaptations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441149985
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/20/2011
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Mary H. Snyder is an instructor of English at Cedar Crest College. She's also a freelance writer and teaches writing courses for the department, as well as literature offerings. In addition to her creative work, she maintains scholarly interests in eighteenth-century and Romantic literature.

Table of Contents

Introduction

I - Literature

1 - Premeditation
2 - On Literary Creation
3 - Before the Beginning: Understanding the Study of Literature to Understand the Role of Literature in Our Lives
4 - Literary Criticism/Analysis: Putting Theory into Practice
5 - The List
6 - A First Close Reading - MARIA: The Injustices of Being a Woman
7 - Beginning Maria, Beginning Sentences, Beginning Literary Creation
8 - Critics on Women's Creations
9 - Women Writers and Strategy
10 - Deconstruction and Monsters
11 - The Multiplicitous Nature of Intertextuality: Maria and Sentences

II - 2
13 - A Marriage of Media?
14 - Attempts at a Screenplay
16 - Film Production
17 - The Elements of Film
18 - Film Analysis
20 - Literature-to-Film Adaptation: The Fascination Never Ends
21 - Ten Observations about Literature-to-Film Adaptation Studies: A Disgruntled Novelist's Perspective
22 - Lit2Film Adaptation Analysis: Charting Some New Territory
23 - Why Teach Lit2Film Adaptation Analysis? Why Learn It?

Appendix A
A1
A2
A3
A4
A5
Appendix B
B1
Appendix C
Sample paper 1
Sample paper 2
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Snyder shows how the act of adaptation is a psychological process, a strategy by which individuals come to make sense of the world and their relationship to it. This represents a significant departure from current thinking in adaptation studies...A fascinating text written by a practicing novelist, a personal odyssey through the minefield of adaptation theory that emphasizes the psychological aspects of the adaptive act.

This is a wise and wonderful book, which among other things provides a novelist's eloquent insider's perspective on the transformation of one of her books into a film. Thirty years ago Stanley Cavell published The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, which opened up an intellectual highway between philosophy and cinema. Now at long last Mary Snyder's book accomplishes a parallel clearing of the way between film making, the art of the novel, and literary and critical theory. Every page is bubbling with creative, theoretical, and pedagogical insights. Her intertextual readings of a score of literature-to-film adaptations are priceless in themselves. I only wish that the title of the book had been taken from her chapter, "The Fascination Never Ends." --Michael Payne, Professor of English Emeritus, Bucknell University

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