John Huston As Adaptor
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John Huston As Adaptor
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Author : Douglas McFarland
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2017-01-28
John Huston As Adaptor written by Douglas McFarland and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-28 with Performing Arts categories.
Argues that understanding Huston’s film adaptations of literary works is essential to understanding his oeuvre as a filmmaker. John Huston as Adaptor makes the case that adaptation is the salient element in Huston’s identity as a filmmaker and that his early and deep attraction to the experience of reading informed his approach to film adaptation. Thirty-four of Huston’s thirty-seven films were adaptations of literary texts, and they stand as serious interpretations of literary works that could only be made by an astute reader of literature. Indeed, Huston asserted that a film director should be above all else a reader and that reading itself should be the intellectual and emotional basis for filmmaking. The seventeen essays in this volume not only address Huston as an adaptor, but also offer an approach to adaptation studies that has been largely overlooked. How an adaptor reads, the works to which he is drawn, and how his literary interpretations can be brought to the screen without relegating film to a subservient role are some of the issues addressed by the contributors. An introductory chapter identifies Huston as the quintessential Hollywood adaptor and argues that his skill at adaptation is the mark of his authorial signature. The chapters that follow focus on fifteen of Huston’s most important films, including The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The African Queen (1951), The Night of the Iguana (1964), Under the Volcano (1984), and The Dead (1987), and are divided into three areas: aesthetics and textuality; history and social context; and theory and psychoanalysis. By offering a more comprehensive account of the centrality of adaptation to Huston’s films, John Huston as Adaptor offers a greater understanding of Huston as a filmmaker. Douglas McFarland is a retired Professor of English at Flagler College. Wesley King is Assistant Professor of English at Flagler College.
Postcolonial Screen Adaptation And The British Novel
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Author : Vivian Y. Kao
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-10-01
Postcolonial Screen Adaptation And The British Novel written by Vivian Y. Kao and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-01 with Performing Arts categories.
This book brings film adaptation of literature to bear on the question of how nineteenth-century imperial ideologies of progress continue to inform power inequalities in a global capitalist age. Not simply the promotion of general betterment for all, improvement in the British colonial context licensed a superior “master race” to “uplift” its colonized populations—morally, socially, and economically. This book argues that, on the one hand, film adaptations of nineteenth-century novels reveal the arrogance and coercive intentions that underpin contemporary notions of development, humanitarianism, and modernity—improvement’s post-Victorian guises. On the other hand, the book also argues that the films use their nineteenth-century source texts to criticize these same legacies of imperialism. By bringing together film adaptation, postcolonial theory, and literary studies, the book demonstrates that adaptation, as both method and cultural product, provides a way to engage with the baggage of ideological heritage in our contemporary global media environment.
The Encyclopedia Of Film
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Author : James Monaco
language : en
Publisher: Perigee Trade
Release Date : 1991
The Encyclopedia Of Film written by James Monaco and has been published by Perigee Trade this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Performing Arts categories.
An alphabetical reference on the major film figures (stars, producers, directors, writers, et al.), past and present. Each entry provides a substantial career biography and a complete listing of all films the individual has been involved with. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Perspectives On John Huston
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Author : Stephen Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1994
Perspectives On John Huston written by Stephen Cooper and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Performing Arts categories.
Hitchcock At The Source
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Author : R. Barton Palmer
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2011-09-01
Hitchcock At The Source written by R. Barton Palmer and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-01 with Performing Arts categories.
The adaptation of literary works to the screen has been the subject of increasing, and increasingly sophisticated, critical and scholarly attention in recent years, but most studies of the subject have continued to privilege literature over film by taking the literary sources as their starting point. Rather than examining the processes by which a particular author has been adapted into a diversity of films by different filmmakers, the contributors in Hitchcock at the Source consider the processes by which a varied range of literary sources have been transformed by one filmmaker into an impressive body of work. Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock transformed a variety of literary sources—novels, plays, short stories—into what is arguably the most coherent and distinctive (narratively, stylistically, and thematically) of all directorial oeuvres. After an introduction surveying the nature and diversity of Hitchcock's sources and locating the current volume in the context of theoretical work on adaptation, nineteen original essays range across the entirety of Hitchcock's career, from the silent period through to the 1970s. In addition to addressing the process of adaptation in particular films in terms of plot and character, the contributors also consider less obvious matters of tone, technique, and ideology; Hitchcock's manipulation of the conventions of literary and dramatic genres such as spy fiction and romantic comedy; and more general problems, such as Hitchcock's shift from plays to novels as his major sources in the course of the 1930s.
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
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Author : Steven Jay Schneider
language : en
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
Release Date : 2005
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die written by Steven Jay Schneider and has been published by B.E.S. Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Motion pictures categories.
Lists "must-see" movies in a chronological arrangement, providing information on director, producer, screenplay writer, music, cast members, and awards, along with a detailed review of each.
American Literature On Stage And Screen
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Author : Thomas S. Hischak
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10
American Literature On Stage And Screen written by Thomas S. Hischak and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
The 525 notable works of 19th and 20th century American fiction in this reference book have many stage, movie, television, and video adaptations. Each literary work is described and then every adaptation is examined with a discussion of how accurate the version is and how well it succeeds in conveying the spirit of the original in a different medium. In addition to famous novels and short stories by authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Willa Cather, many bestsellers, mysteries, children’s books, young adult books, horror novels, science fiction, detective stories, and sensational potboilers from the past two centuries are examined.
Five French Filmmakers
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Author : Bert Cardullo
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Five French Filmmakers written by Bert Cardullo and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Five French Filmmakers: Renoir, Bresson, Tati, Truffaut, Rohmer; Essays and Interviews is, as its title indicates, a collection of essays about, followed by interviews with, five of France's major movie directors from the silent period (the early part of Jean Renoir's career) through the New Wave and beyond (even to the present, in the films of Eric Rohmer). Most critics would agree that these five men are among the most important, if not the most important, in the history of French cinema-which means, of course, that they play a significant role in the history of world cinema as well. Moreover, there are echoes of Renoir's work in Francois Truffaut's, even as there are of Robert Bresson in Rohmer. The great Jacques Tati himself is evidence of Bresson's dictum that the soundtrack invented silence, for he made all of his comedies-otherwise filled with silence-during the sound period. Five French Filmmakers, then, is the macrocosmic French cinema in microcosm. And all the more so because this book is introduced by the seminal French theorist and critic Andre Bazin (1918-1958), who in 1957 wrote an essay (translated here by me, for the very first time) titled Fifteen Years of French Cinema, which serendipitously spans the period from Renoir's sound pictures all the way up to the start of the New Wave. Bazin naturally talks about all the important directors, in addition to Renoir, Bresson, Tati, Truffaut, and Rohmer, working or starting their careers from 1942 to 1957, which is precisely why I have included his piece in-indeed, placed it at the start of-Five French Filmmakers.
Short Story Criticism
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Author : Jessica Bomarito
language : en
Publisher: Short Story Criticism
Release Date : 2006-10
Short Story Criticism written by Jessica Bomarito and has been published by Short Story Criticism this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Presents literary criticism on the works of short-story writers of all nations, cultures, and time periods. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, newspapers, pamphlets, and scholarly papers.
Selected Plays
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Author : Christopher Fry
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1985
Selected Plays written by Christopher Fry and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with English drama categories.
This book brings together for the first time in one volume five of Christopher Fry's most popular plays: The Boy With A Cart, A Phoenix Too Frequent, The Lady's Not For Burning, A Sleep of Prisoners, and Curtmantle. Displaying all the variety and richness that characterize verse drama at its best, the plays appear here in the order in which they were first performed