Screening Text: Critical Perspectives on Film Adaptation

by Shannon Wells-Lassagne (Editor), Ariane Hudelet (Editor)

Overview

Rather than limiting the cinema, as certain French New Wave critics feared, adaptation has encouraged new inspiration to explore the possibilities of the intersection of text and film. This collection of essays covers various aspects of adaptation studies--questions of genre and myth, race and gender, readaptation, and pedagogical and practical approaches.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786472307
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	02/18/2013
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Shannon Wells-Lassagne is an associate professor at the Université de Bretagne Sud in Lorient, France. Ariane Hudelet is an associate professor at Université de Paris 7 and lives in Paris, France.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction
deleteShannon Wells-Lassagne and Ariane Hudelet
Part 1. Setting the Scene
Adaptation, Sound and Shakespeare in the 1930s
deleteDeborah Cartmell
Postmodern Screened Writers
deleteKamilla Elliott
Part 2. Adapting Genre
True Stories: Film and the Non-Fiction Narrative
deleteKevin Dwyer
The Writing of a Film Noir: Ernest Hemingway and The Killers
deleteDelphine Letort
Three Filmic Avatars of The Maltese Falcon
deleteGilles Menegaldo
The Aesthetic of Epic in Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet
deleteSarah Hatchuel
Part 3. Sociocultural Concerns: Race and Gender
White Lies, Noir Lighting, Dark Others
deleteJoyce Goggin
Making Red Black: Race and The Shawshank Redemption
deleteDonald Ulin
Shaft’s Political Shifts
deleteHélène Charlery
Sexual Politics: The Last September, Novel and Film
deleteShannon Wells-Lassagne
Jane Austen Goes to Bollywood ... with a Pinch of Salt
deleteFlorence Cabaret
Part 4. Aesthetics of Adaptation
Surface and Depth in Korea
deleteNicole Cloarec
The Visible in Howards End and The Remains of the
deleteKarim Chabani
Adapting E. M. Forster’s Subversive Aesthetics
deleteLaurent Mellet
Part 5. Remakes and Readaptation
Re-Adaptation as Part of the Myth: Orson Welles and Don
 Quixote’s “Outings”
deleteSébastien Lefait
Bad Shakespeare: Adapting a Tradition
deleteCharles Holdefer
Readapting “the Horror”: Versions of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
deleteGene M. Moore
Three Scarfaces: Documents, Messages and Works of
deleteDominique Sipière
Conclusion: From Theory to Practice
Lost in Adaptation—A Producer’s View
deleteRoger Shannon
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index