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Literature and Film is a superb collection of vibrant essays that chart the history and confluence of literature and film. Bringing together the very latest scholarship in the field, this guide contains astute and readable contributions – both theoretical and thematic – on the translation of literary into filmic texts.Subjects range from established classics including The Last of the Mohicans, through consecrated genre works like Cape Fear, to contemporary classics such as The English Patient and Beloved. Almost all of the essays are originals, especially composed for this volume, and written by leading international scholars on both literature and film. The book features an ambitious introductory essay tracing the theory and practice of adaptation, providing the ideal entry point for students or scholars exploring this dynamic and multifaceted field.

Film adaptations --- Motion pictures and literature. --- Cinéma et littérature. --- Adaptations cinématographiques. --- History and criticism.

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Cinéma --- Art d'écrire --- Récit filmique. --- Histoire et critique --- Sémiotique et cinéma --- Analyse du discours narratif --- Récit filmique --- Point de vue (cinéma) --- Cinéma et littérature --- film --- filmtheorie --- narratologie --- semiotiek --- semiologie --- film en semiotiek --- 791.41 --- Cinéma --- Art d'écrire --- Sémiotique et cinéma. --- Analyse du discours narratif. --- Cinéma et littérature. --- Art d'écrire. --- CDL --- Cinéma - Scenarios - Histoire et critique --- Motion picture plays. --- Motion picture authorship. --- Point de vue (cinéma). --- Scénarios de cinéma. --- screenplays. --- cinéma --- Littérature --- Récit.

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Film --- Genet, Jean --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures and literature --- Cinéma --- Cinéma et littérature --- Genet, Jean, --- Film adaptations --- Adaptations cinématographiques --- Chant d'amour --- film --- genet Jean --- un chant d'amour --- twintigste eeuw --- homoseksualiteit --- 791.471 GENET --- Jane Giles ; trad. par Françoise Michaud --- Cinéma --- Cinéma et littérature --- Adaptations cinématographiques --- Film adaptations.

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The essays in this collection analyse major film adaptations of twentieth-century American fiction, from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon to Toni Morrison's Beloved. During the century, films based on American literature came to play a central role in the history of the American cinema. Combining cinematic and literary approaches, this volume explores the adaptation process from conception through production and reception. The contributors explore the ways political and historical contexts have shaped the transfer from book to screen, and the new perspectives that films bring to literary works. In particular, they examine how the twentieth-century literary modes of realism, modernism, and postmodernism have influenced the forms of modern cinema. Written in a lively and accessible style, the book includes production stills and full filmographies. Together with its companion volume on nineteenth-century fiction, the volume offers a comprehensive account of the rich tradition of American literature on screen.

American fiction --- Motion pictures and literature --- Roman américain --- Cinéma et littérature --- Film and video adaptations --- Adaptations cinématographiques et télévisées --- Film adaptations --- Film adaptations. --- History and criticism. --- Roman américain --- Cinéma et littérature --- Adaptations cinématographiques et télévisées --- American literature --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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Ranging over the broad spectrum of contemporary literary and film theory, Breaking the Frame explores the different approaches to cinematic art that are offered by cognitive psychology, feminist theory, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis. In this study Inez Hedges looks closely at films that challenge accepted norms in both form and content. The films discussed here, including Zazie, La Nuit de Varennes, and E.T., break out of conventional frames, upsetting our expectations about how films should look (the film frame) as well as how experience is usually organized by cine- matic works of art (the psychological or cognitive frame). Hedges focuses on two primary areas: the way that the structure of film texts guides the interpretations of the spectator (hermeneutics) and the way that films reflect social models (representation). Within the hermeneutic approach, the author relates the unconventional use of film language in cinematic works of the 1960s and 1970s not only to the recent novels of Beckett and Queneau and to the French nouveau roman but also to one of the founding texts of Western literature, the Oedipus Rex of Sophocles. The discussion of representation exam- ines the social ascendancy of cinematic narrative in modern times in the light of the philosophical insights of Michel Foucault and Harold Bloom. Finally, contemporary feminist and psychoanalytic theories are brought to bear on cinematic representations of gender. Breaking the Frame will be of interest not only to scholars and students of film and literature but also to today's "filmliterate" public who enjoy exploring the theoretical and philosophical implications of cinematic works.

Interpretatie. --- Vertelkunst. --- Filmkunst. --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures and literature. --- Cinema --- Cinema et litterature. --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie. --- Literature and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and literature --- Literature --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History and criticism --- Film history, theory & criticism