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William Faulkner occupied a unique position as a modern writer. Although famous for his modernist novels and their notorious difficulty, he also wrote extensively for the "culture industry," and the works he produced for it—including short stories, adaptations, and screenplays—bore many of the hallmarks of consumer art. His experiences as a Hollywood screenwriter influenced him in a number of ways, many of them negative, while the films turned out by the "dream factories" in which he labored sporadically inspired both his interest and his contempt. Faulkner also disparaged the popular magazines—though he frequently sold short stories to them.To what extent was Faulkner's deeply ambivalent relationship to—and involvement with—American popular culture reflected in his modernist or "art" fiction? Peter Lurie finds convincing evidence that Faulkner was keenly aware of commercial culture and adapted its formulae, strategies, and in particular, its visual techniques into the language of his novels of the 1930s. Lurie contends that Faulkner's modernism can be best understood in light of his reaction to the popular culture of his day. Using Theodor Adorno's theory about modern cultural production as a framework, Lurie's close readings of Sanctuary, Light in August, Absalom! Absalom!, and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem uncover the cultural history that surrounded and influenced the development of Faulkner's art. Lurie is particularly interested in the influence of cinema on Faulkner's fiction and especially the visual strategies he both deployed and critiqued. These include the suggestion of cinematic viewing on the part of readers and of characters in each of the novels; the collective and individual acts of voyeurism in Sanctuary and Light in August; the exposing in Absalom! Absalom! and Light in Augustof stereotypical and cinematic patterns of thought about history and race; and the evocation of popular forms like melodrama and the movie screen in If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem. Offering innovative readings of these canonical works, this study sheds new light on Faulkner's uniquely American modernism.

Film adaptations. --- American fiction --- Motion pictures --- Popular culture --- History --- Faulkner, William, --- Film and video adaptations. --- Literary theory

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The essays collected in this book focus on the multi-faceted relationship between German/Austrian literature and the cinema screen. Scholars from Ireland, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Portugal, USA and Canada present critical readings of a wide range of transpositions of German-language texts to film, while also considering the impact of cinema on German literature, exploring intertextualities as well as intermedialities. The forum of discussion thus created encompasses cinematic narratives based on Goethe’s Faust , Kleist’s Marquise of O ..., Kubrick’s film version of Schnitzler’s Dream Story and Caroline Link’s Oscar-winning adaptation of Stefanie Zweig’s novel Nowhere in Africa . The wide-ranging analyses of the complex interaction between literature and film presented here focus on literary works by Anna Seghers, Hans-Magnus Enzensberger, Nicola Rhon, Günter Grass, Heinrich Böll, Elfriede Jelinek, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Erich Hackl, Thomas Brussig, Sven Regener, Frank Goosen and Robert Schneider, as well as on adaptations by filmmakers such as Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Max Mack, Josef von Sternberg, Max W. Kimmich, Fred Zinnemann, Paul Wegener, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff, Hansjürgen Pohland, Hendrik Handloegten, Michael Haneke, Christoph Stark, Karin Brandauer, Joseph Vilsmaier, Leander Haußmann and Doris Dörrie.

German literature -- Film adaptations. --- Intertextuality. --- Motion pictures -- Germany. --- German literature --- Motion pictures --- Intertextuality --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Film --- Film and video adaptations. --- Criticism --- Semiotics --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

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"An excellent example of literary criticism, as each of the fourteen essays is well-researched and scholarly but with a touch of humor."--Film & History. "Few scholarly works excite sufficient demand to require a second edition within three yours of the first publication, but this collection of essays on Austen and Hollywood has attracted an audience far beyond academe."--Eighteenth Century Current Bibliography. "It is good to know that serious study of Austen's stature as a cultural icon for different reading publics is beginning."--Times Literary Supplement. "Such a book was sure to follow the Austen explosion and we welcome it."--Literature/Film Quarterly. "This book has something for both the Austen scholar and the Austen enthusiast."--Booklist. "[These articles] are engaging and sure to spark discussion"--Library Journal. In 1995 and 1996 six film or television adaptations of Jane Austen's novels were produced -- an unprecedented number. More amazing, all were critical and/or box office successes. What accounts for this explosion of interest? Much of the appeal of these films lies in our nostalgic desire at the end of the millennium for an age of greater politeness and sexual reticence. Austen's ridicule of deceit and pretentiousness also appeals to our fin de siecle sensibilities. The novels were changed, however, to enhance their appeal to a wide popular audience, and the revisions reveal much about our own culture and its values. These recent productions espouse explicitly twentieth-century feminist notions and reshape the Austenian hero to make him conform to modern expectations. Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield present fourteen essays examining the phenomenon of Jane Austen as cultural icon, providing thoughtful and sympathetic insights on the films through a variety of critical approaches. The contributors debate whether these productions enhance or undercut the subtle feminism that Austen promoted in her novels. From Persuasion to Pride and Prejudice, from the three Emmas (including Clueless) to Sense and Sensibility, these films succeed because they flatter our intelligence and education. And they have as much to tell us about ourselves as they do about the world of Jane Austen. This second edition includes a new chapter on the recent film version of Mansfield Park.

Women in motion pictures. --- Film adaptations --- English fiction --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism. --- Austen, Jane, --- Ao-ssu-ting, --- Ao-ssu-ting, Chien, --- Aosiding, --- Aosiding, Jian, --- Āsṭin̲, Jēn̲, --- Austenová, Jane, --- Osten, Dzheĭn, --- Ostin, Dzhein, --- Lady, --- Author of Sense and Sensibility, --- Остен, Джейн, --- Остен, Джейм, --- אוסטן, ג׳יין --- אוסטן, ג׳יין, --- أوستن، جين، --- Film and video adaptations. --- England --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales --- In motion pictures. --- Roman anglais --- Cinéma --- Femmes au cinéma --- Adaptations cinématographiques et télévisées --- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) --- Angleterre au cinéma --- Angleterre au cinéma. --- Aufsatzsammlung. --- Engels. --- Femmes au cinéma. --- Film adaptations. --- Motion pictures. --- Roman. --- Romans. --- Verfilmingen. --- Verfilmung. --- Adaptations cinématographiques et télévisées. --- Andrae, A. --- Austen, Jane. --- England. --- Women in motion pictures --- Cinéma --- --Littérature --- --Austen, Jane, --- Film and video adaptations --- In motion pictures --- Littérature --- Austen, Jane, - 1775-1817 - Film and video adaptations --- England - In motion pictures --- Austen, Jane, - 1775-1817

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"" Thomas Dixon has a notorious reputation as the writer of the source material for D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking and controversial 1915 feature film The Birth of a Nation. Perhaps unfairly, Dixon has been branded an arch-conservative and a racist obsessed with what he viewed as ""the Negro problem."" As American Racist makes clear, however, Dixon was a complex, multi-talented individual who, as well as writing some of the most popular novels of the early twentieth century, was involved in the production of some eighteen films. Dixon used the motion picture as a propaganda tool for his

Racism in literature. --- Racism --- Racism in motion pictures. --- African Americans in literature. --- African Americans in motion pictures. --- Film adaptations --- Authors, American --- Motion pictures --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Afro-Americans in motion pictures --- Negroes in moving-pictures --- Race films --- History and criticism. --- History --- Dixon, Thomas, --- Dixon, Thomas F., --- Political and social views. --- Film and video adaptations.

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Spanish drama --- Motion pictures and theater --- Film adaptations. --- Spanish literature --- Moving-pictures and theater --- Theater and motion pictures --- Theater --- Adaptations, Film --- Books, Filmed --- Filmed books --- Films from books --- Literature --- Motion picture adaptations --- Motion pictures --- Film and video adaptations. --- Film adaptations --- Adaptations