Film and Literature An Introduction and Reader

Name: Film and Literature An Introduction and Reader
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ISBN: 9780135265420

ISBN-10: 0135265428

ISBN-13: 9780135265420

Edition: 1999

Authors: Timothy Corrigan

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This book is a wide-ranging introduction to the long history and provocative debates about the interactions between film and literature.KEY TOPICS: Film and Literature: A Reader presents essays from a variety of cultures that address the major issues in the exchange between film and literature since the beginning of the twentieth century. The book provides landmark discussions of different genres and practices (such as poetry and movies or film scripts as literature) through writings by such figures as Vachel Lindsay, Walter Benjamin, and Alexander Astruc. It presents a concise, but detailed history of film and literature and the critical terms and techniques used in film and literary…

Book details

List price: $75.40
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 11/30/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 374
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction



Film and Literature in the Crosscurrents of History



The Prehistory of Film and Literature



Filming Literature: From Preclassical Film and Literature to Classical Form, 1895-1925



Testing and Expanding the Value of Film and Literature, 1915-1940



Pens, Pulp, and the Crisis of the Word, 1940-1960



Academic Cinema and International Spectacles: 1960-1980



Books and Movies as Multimedia: Into the 1990s



Critical Borders and Boundaries: Analytical Categories for Film and Literature



Themes, Narratives, and Elements of Style



Genres and Other Assumptions



Major Documents and Debates



Historical Positions



Progress and Endowment



The Means of Photoplay



The Poet's Attitude Toward the Movies



The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction



Dickens, Griffith, and the Film Today



The Script



The Birth of a New Avant-Garde: La Camera-Stylo



Theater and Cinema



The Limits of the Novel and the Limits of the Film



The Lyrical Film



Word and Film



Current Perspectives and Methods



Acting: Stage vs. Screen



Novel, Short Story


Drama: The Conditions for Influence



Adaptation



Readership and Spectatorship



Pasolinis Decameron: Writing with Bodies



Literary Forces Encouraging the Use of Black Writers



Lost, Lost, Lost: Mekas as Essayist



Totally Clueless?


Shakespeare Goes Hollywood in the 1990s


Bibliography


Index