Stam R., Raengo A. (eds.) A Companion to Literature and Film

Wiley-Blackwell, 2007. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 1405177551; ISBN13: 978-1405177559.A Companion to Literature in Film provides state-of-the-art research on world literature, film, and the complex theoretical relationship between them. 25 essays by international experts cover the most important topics in the study of literature and film adaptations. Covers a wide variety of topics, including cultural, thematic, theoretical, and genre issues Discusses film adaptations from the birth of cinema to the present day Explores a diverse range of titles and genres, including film noir, biblical epics, and Italian and Chinese cinema.Novels, Films, and the Word/Image Wars
Sacred Word, Profane Image: Theologies of Adaptation
Gospel Truth? From Cecil B. DeMille to Nicholas Ray
Transécriture and Narrative Mediatics: The Stakes of Intermediality
The Look: From Film to Novel. An Essay in Comparative Narratology
Adaptation and Mis-adaptations: Film, Literature, and Social Discourses
The Invisible Novelty: Film Adaptations in the 1910s
Italy and America: Pinocchio’s First Cinematic Trip
The Intertextuality of Early Cinema: A Prologue to Fantômas
Cosmopolitan Projections: World Literature on Chinese Screens
The Rhetoric of Interruption
Visualizing the Voice: Joyce, Cinema, and the Politics of Vision
Adapting Cinema to History: A Revolution in the Making
Photographic Verismo, Cinematic Adaptation, and the Staging of a Neorealist Landscape
The Devil’s Parody: Horace McCoy’s Appropriation and Refiguration of Two Hollywood Musicals
The Sociological Turn of Adaptation Studies: The Example of Film Noir
Adapting Farewell, My Lovely
Daphne du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock
Running Time: The Chronotope of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
From Libertinage to Eric Rohmer: Transcending Adaptation
The Moment of Portraiture: Scorsese Reads Wharton
The Talented Poststructuralist: Hetero-masculinity, Gay Artifice, and Class Passing
From Bram Stoker’s Dracula to Bram Stoker’s Dracula
The Bible as Cultural Object(s) in Cinema
All’s Wells that Ends Wells: Apocalypse and Empire in The War of the Worlds