Literature Through Film: Realism, Magic, and the Art of Adaptation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781405102889)

This lively and accessible textbook, written by an expert in film studies, provides a fascinating introduction to the process and art of literature-to-film adaptations.

• Provides a lively, rigorous, and clearly written account of key moments in the history of the novel from Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe up to Lolita and One Hundred Years of Solitude
  
• Includes diversity of topics and titles, such as Fielding, Nabokov, and Cervantes in adaptations by Welles, Kubrick, and the French New Wave
  
• Emphasizes both the literary texts themselves and their varied transtextual film adaptations
  
• Examines numerous literary trends - from the self-conscious novel to magic realism - before exploring the cinematic impact of the movement
  
• Reinvigorates the field of adaptation studies by examining it through the grid of contemporary theory
  
• Brings novels and film adaptations into the age of multiculturalism, postcoloniality, and the Internet by reflecting on their contemporary relevance.

Author: Robert Stam
ISBN-10: 1405102888
ISBN-13: 9781405102889
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 10/22/2004
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.46w x 0.88d