Wieland Schwanebeck is Assistant Lecturer at the Institute of English and American Studies at Dresden University of Technology, Germany. He has recently edited Reassessing the Hitchcock Touch (2017).Douglas McFarland is Retired Professor of English and Classical Studies at Flagler College, USA. He is the co-editor of John Huston as Adaptor (2017).

• 1. Introduction: Patricia Highsmith on Screen, Douglas McFarland and Wieland Schwanebeck.- 2. The Dark Side of Adaptation, Thomas Leitch.- Section I: Doubles, Copies, and Strangers.- 3. “I Meet a Lot of Guys--But Not Many Like You”: Strangers and Types in Highsmith’s and Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train, Bran Nicol.- 4. Strangers on a Park Bench: From Highsmith to Alfred Hitchcock to Woody Allen, Klara Stephanie Szlezák.- 5. Tom Ripley’s Talent, Murray Pomerance.- 6. Ripley Under Ground and Its Illegitimate Heirs, Wieland Schwanebeck.- Section II: Queer Encounters.- 7. Queer Ripley: Minghella, Highsmith, and the Anti-Social.- David Greven.- 8. The Price of Salt, Carol, and Queer Narrative Desire(s), Alison L. McKee.- 9. “Easy Living”: From The Price of Salt (78) to Carol (EP), Robert Miklitsch.- Section III: Aesthetic, Mythic, and Cultural Transaction.- 10. Adapting Irony: Claude Chabrol’s The Cry of the Owl, Douglas McFarland.- 11. With Friends Like These: Wim Wenders’ The American Friend as Noir Allegory, Christopher Breu.- 12. Hans Geissendörfer’s Psychological Noir: West-German Adaptations of Patricia Highsmith Novels, Erin Altman and William Mahan.- 13. Authorship and Scales of Adaptation in Chillers, Kristopher Mecholsky.- 14. The Two Faces of January: Theseus and the Minotaur, Catherine McFarland.- Section IV: Adapters in Conversation.- 15. Memories of The American Friend, Wim Wenders.- 16. "Highsmith really writes films", Hans W. Geißendörfer.- 17. “An interesting lack of sentimentality", Hossein Amini.- 18. “Highsmith was the queen of guilt", Phyllis Nagy.

Wieland Schwanebeck is Assistant Lecturer at the Institute of English and American Studies at Dresden University of Technology, Germany. He has recently edited Reassessing the Hitchcock Touch (2017).Douglas McFarland is Retired Professor of English and Classical Studies at Flagler College, USA. He is the co-editor of John Huston as Adaptor (2017).

• 1. Introduction: Patricia Highsmith on Screen, Douglas McFarland and Wieland Schwanebeck.- 2. The Dark Side of Adaptation, Thomas Leitch.- Section I: Doubles, Copies, and Strangers.- 3. “I Meet a Lot of Guys--But Not Many Like You”: Strangers and Types in Highsmith’s and Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train, Bran Nicol.- 4. Strangers on a Park Bench: From Highsmith to Alfred Hitchcock to Woody Allen, Klara Stephanie Szlezák.- 5. Tom Ripley’s Talent, Murray Pomerance.- 6. Ripley Under Ground and Its Illegitimate Heirs, Wieland Schwanebeck.- Section II: Queer Encounters.- 7. Queer Ripley: Minghella, Highsmith, and the Anti-Social.- David Greven.- 8. The Price of Salt, Carol, and Queer Narrative Desire(s), Alison L. McKee.- 9. “Easy Living”: From The Price of Salt (78) to Carol (EP), Robert Miklitsch.- Section III: Aesthetic, Mythic, and Cultural Transaction.- 10. Adapting Irony: Claude Chabrol’s The Cry of the Owl, Douglas McFarland.- 11. With Friends Like These: Wim Wenders’ The American Friend as Noir Allegory, Christopher Breu.- 12. Hans Geissendörfer’s Psychological Noir: West-German Adaptations of Patricia Highsmith Novels, Erin Altman and William Mahan.- 13. Authorship and Scales of Adaptation in Chillers, Kristopher Mecholsky.- 14. The Two Faces of January: Theseus and the Minotaur, Catherine McFarland.- Section IV: Adapters in Conversation.- 15. Memories of The American Friend, Wim Wenders.- 16. "Highsmith really writes films", Hans W. Geißendörfer.- 17. “An interesting lack of sentimentality", Hossein Amini.- 18. “Highsmith was the queen of guilt", Phyllis Nagy.

Wieland Schwanebeck is Assistant Lecturer at the Institute of English and American Studies at Dresden University of Technology, Germany. He has recently edited Reassessing the Hitchcock Touch (2017).Douglas McFarland is Retired Professor of English and Classical Studies at Flagler College, USA. He is the co-editor of John Huston as Adaptor (2017).

• 1. Introduction: Patricia Highsmith on Screen, Douglas McFarland and Wieland Schwanebeck.- 2. The Dark Side of Adaptation, Thomas Leitch.- Section I: Doubles, Copies, and Strangers.- 3. “I Meet a Lot of Guys--But Not Many Like You”: Strangers and Types in Highsmith’s and Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train, Bran Nicol.- 4. Strangers on a Park Bench: From Highsmith to Alfred Hitchcock to Woody Allen, Klara Stephanie Szlezák.- 5. Tom Ripley’s Talent, Murray Pomerance.- 6. Ripley Under Ground and Its Illegitimate Heirs, Wieland Schwanebeck.- Section II: Queer Encounters.- 7. Queer Ripley: Minghella, Highsmith, and the Anti-Social.- David Greven.- 8. The Price of Salt, Carol, and Queer Narrative Desire(s), Alison L. McKee.- 9. “Easy Living”: From The Price of Salt (78) to Carol (EP), Robert Miklitsch.- Section III: Aesthetic, Mythic, and Cultural Transaction.- 10. Adapting Irony: Claude Chabrol’s The Cry of the Owl, Douglas McFarland.- 11. With Friends Like These: Wim Wenders’ The American Friend as Noir Allegory, Christopher Breu.- 12. Hans Geissendörfer’s Psychological Noir: West-German Adaptations of Patricia Highsmith Novels, Erin Altman and William Mahan.- 13. Authorship and Scales of Adaptation in Chillers, Kristopher Mecholsky.- 14. The Two Faces of January: Theseus and the Minotaur, Catherine McFarland.- Section IV: Adapters in Conversation.- 15. Memories of The American Friend, Wim Wenders.- 16. "Highsmith really writes films", Hans W. Geißendörfer.- 17. “An interesting lack of sentimentality", Hossein Amini.- 18. “Highsmith was the queen of guilt", Phyllis Nagy.