Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-243) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Emma in Los Angeles : remaking the book and the city / Lesley Stern. Adaptation, or the cinema as digest / AndreĢ Bazin -- Adaptation / Dudley Andrew -- The field of "literature and film" / Robert B. Ray -- Beyond fidelity : the dialogics of adaptation / Robert Stam -- "To prevent the prevalent type of book" : censorship and adaptation in Hollywood, 1924-1934 / Richard Maltby -- Dickens, the Depression, and MGM's David Copperfield / Guerric DeBona, O.S.B. -- Landscape and fiction : A day in the country / Gilberto Perez -- Welles/Shakespeare/film : an overview / Michael Anderegg -- High and low : art cinema and pulp fiction in Yokohama / Matthew Bernstein -- The politics of adaptation : How tasty was my little Frenchman / Darlene J. Sadlier -- Two forms of adaptation : Housekeeping and Naked lunch / Jonathan Rosenbaum -- Emma in Los Angeles : remaking the book and the city / Lesley Stern.
Summary:
Includes information on The Grapes of Wrath (film), Of Mice and Men (film), David Copperfield (film), A Day in the Country (film), Clueless (film), John Ford, How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (film), Akira Kurosawa, Macbeth (film), Jean Renoir, David O. Selznick, Shakespearean films, Orson Welles, etc.
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