Literature Through Film

Robert Stam is University Professor at New York University. His many books include Film Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell, 2000), Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (with Ella Shohat, 1994), and Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism and Film (1989). With Toby Miller, he is the editor of Film and Theory (Blackwell, 2000) and The Blackwell Companion to Film Theory (2000).

• List of Illustations. Preface.Acknowledgments.Introduction.1. A Cervantic Prelude: From Don Quixote to Postmodernism.2. Colonial and Postcolonial Classics: From Robinson Crusoe to Survivor.3. The Self-Conscious Novel: From Henry Fielding to David Eggers.4. The Proto-cinematic Novel: Metamorphoses of Madame Bovary.5. Underground Man and Neurotic Narrators: From Dostoevsky to Nabakov.6. Modernism, Adaptation, and the French New Wave.7. Full Circle: From Cervantes to Magic Realism.Index

“Robert Stam helps us better understand two of the most important art forms of our time – film and the novel. In so doing, he brings to light new sources for the distinctiveness of each. The general method guiding his particular analyses of movement from one medium to the other is itself a major contribution to translation theory.”Michael Holquist, Yale University