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Nineteenth-century American Fiction On Screen

  • Nineteenth-century American Fiction On Screen
  • Attribution

    edited by R. Barton Palmer
  • Publication Details

    Book, Cambridge University Press, 2007
  • Availability

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      (UPPER LEVEL)  PN1997.85 .N54 2007         NEW BOOK(MAIN)

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    The process of translating works of literature to the silver screen is a rich field of study for both students and scholars of literature and cinema. Many of the major works of the American canon are included, including The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick and Sister Carrie. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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  • Contents

    • Introduction / R. Barton Palmer
    • A very American fable: the making of a Mohicans adaptation / Martin Barker and Roger Sabin
    • Romancing the letter: screening a Hawthorne classic / Michael Dunne
    • The movies in the Rue Morgue: adapting Edgar Allan Poe for the screen / Paul Woolf
    • Readapting Uncle Tom’s Cabin / Stephen Railton
    • Screening authorship: Little Women on screen 1933-1994 / Deborah Cartmell and Judy Simons
    • Melville’s Moby Dick and Hollywood / David Lavery
    • Screening male sentimental power in Ben-Hur / Marcia L. Pentz-Harris, Linda Seger, and R. Barton Palmer
    • John Huston’s The red badge of courage / Jakob Lothe
    • Translating Daisy Miller / Douglas McFArland
    • Jane Campion’s The portrait of a lady / Harriet Margolis and Janet Hughes
    • The Europeans-and the Americans / Brian McFarlane
    • Sister Carrie becomes Carrie / Stephen C. Brennan
    • Hollywood and The sea-wolf / Tony Williams
    • An untypical typicality: screening Owen Wister’s The Virginian / R. Barton Palmer
  • ISBN

    • 9780521603164
    • 0521603161
    • 9780521842211
    • 0521842212
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