Analyzing Literature-to-Film Adaptations

A Novelist's Exploration and Guide

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

Av Mary H. Snyder

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This is an introduction of an academic means for critical analysis of film adaptations. Critical questions specific to film adaptations need to be not only developed but established. And, these questions, these approaches, need to be accessible to students, who are not yet educationally sophisticated enough to digest purely theoretical material. "Analyzing Literature-to-Film Adaptations: A Novelist's Exploration and Guide" signifies an exploration into film adaptation from a novelists' perspective, from the author working with a screenwriter, embarking on a journey to understand the implications of literature-to-film adaptation and the complexities and problems it raises. Using well-known adaptations ("Mary Shelley's Frankenstein," "Children of Men," "The Handmaid's Tale," "The Hours;" "The Cider House Rules," "Beloved," "Atonement;" "No Country for Old Men," and "The Road") this book will put forth an understanding of film and film analysis, as well as address literary analysis; though the crux of this book will be the introduction of an academic means for critical analysis of film adaptations.It will focus on literature-to-film adaptations, or literary narratives (novels, novellas, and short stories) being adapted to film.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-01-20
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt612 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieContinnuum-3PL
Antal sidor320
FörlagContinuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN9781441149985

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Introduction I - Literature 1 - Premeditation 2 - On Literary Creation 3 - Before the Beginning: Understanding the Study of Literature to Understand the Role of Literature in Our Lives 4 - Literary Criticism/Analysis: Putting Theory into Practice 5 - The List 6 - A First Close Reading - MARIA: The Injustices of Being a Woman 7 - Beginning Maria, Beginning Sentences, Beginning Literary Creation 8 - Critics on Women's Creations 9 - Women Writers and Strategy 10 - Deconstruction and Monsters 11 - The Multiplicitous Nature of Intertextuality: Maria and Sentences II - 2 13 - A Marriage of Media? 14 - Attempts at a Screenplay 16 - Film Production 17 - The Elements of Film 18 - Film Analysis 20 - Literature-to-Film Adaptation: The Fascination Never Ends 21 - Ten Observations about Literature-to-Film Adaptation Studies: A Disgruntled Novelist's Perspective 22 - Lit2Film Adaptation Analysis: Charting Some New Territory 23 - Why Teach Lit2Film Adaptation Analysis? Why Learn It? Appendix AA1 A2 A3 A4 A5 Appendix BB1 Appendix CSample paper 1Sample paper 2Bibliography Index

This is a wise and wonderful book, which among other things provides a novelist's eloquent insider's perspective on the transformation of one of her books into a film. Thirty years ago Stanley Cavell published The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, which opened up an intellectual highway between philosophy and cinema. Now at long last Mary Snyder's book accomplishes a parallel clearing of the way between film making, the art of the novel, and literary and critical theory. Every page is bubbling with creative, theoretical, and pedagogical insights. Her intertextual readings of a score of literature-to-film adaptations are priceless in themselves. I only wish that the title of the book had been taken from her chapter, "The Fascination Never Ends." --Michael Payne, Professor of English Emeritus, Bucknell University