Literature into Film Theory and Practical Approaches

Name: Literature into Film Theory and Practical Approaches
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ISBN: 9780786425976

ISBN-10: 0786425970

ISBN-13: 9780786425976

Edition: 2006

Authors: Linda Costanzo Cahir, James M. Welsh

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For most people, film adaptation of literature can be summed up in one sentence: ?The movie wasn?t as good as the book.? This volume undertakes to show the reader that not only is this evaluation not always true but sometimes it is intrinsically unfair. Movies based on literary works, while often billed as adaptations, are more correctly termed translations. A director and his actors translate the story from the written page into a visual presentation. Depending on the form of the original text and the chosen method of translation, certain inherent difficulties and pitfalls are associated with this change of medium. So often our reception of a book-based movie has more to do with our…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 4/4/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 315
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

Linda Costanzo Cahir is an assistant professor at Kean University and a contributing editor to Literature/Film Quarterly. Her publications include numerous articles and the book Society and Solitude in the Works of Herman Melville and Edith Wharton.




The nature of film translation : literal, traditional, and radical



The language of film and its relation to the language of literature



The film industry and the collaborative work of filmmakers



Novels and novellas into film and an aesthetic rubric for film translations of literature



Plays into film



Short stories into film



Writing about film



The aesthetic rubric



Shot sequence : decoupage and storyboard



Shakespeare plays on film