Film Adaptations as Cultural Events in the Twentieth Century
Hardback
Publication Date: 31/01/2013
Scholarly approaches to the relationship between literature and film, ranging from the traditional focus upon fidelity to more recent issues of intertextuality, all contain a significant blind spot: a lack of theoretical and methodological attention to adaptation as an historical and transnational phenomenon. This book argues for a historically informed approach to American popular culture that reconfigures the classically defined adaptation phenomenon as a form of transnational reception. Focusing on several case studies- including the films Sense and Sensibility (1995) and The Portrait of a Lady (1997), and the classics The Third Man (1949) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)-the author demonstrates the ways adapted literary works function as social and cultural events in history and how these become important sites of cultural negotiation and struggle.
- ISBN:
- 9780857457318
- 9780857457318
- Category:
- Film theory & criticism
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 31-01-2013
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Berghahn Books
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 252
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x14mm
- Weight:
- 0.49kg
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