The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen (Cambridge Companions to Literature) PDF
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THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO LITERATURE ON SCREEN ThisCompanionoffersamulti-disciplinaryapproachtoliteratureonfilmand television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, and adaptations for children. There arealsocasestudieson,forexample,Shakespeare,JaneAusten,thenineteenth- century novel, and modernism, which allow the reader to place adaptations of the work of writers within a wider context. An interview with Andrew Davies,whoseadaptationworkincludesPrideandPrejudice(1995)andBleak House(2005),revealsthepracticalchoicesandchallengesthatfacetheprofes- sional writer and adaptor. The Companion, as a whole, provides an extensive surveyofanincreasinglypopularfieldofstudy. Acompletelistofbooksintheseriesisatthebackofthisbook. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO LITERATURE ON SCREEN THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO LITERATURE ON SCREEN EDITED BY DEBORAH CARTMELL AND IMELDA WHELEHAN CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,CambridgeCB28RU,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521614863 #CambridgeUniversityPress2007 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithout thewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2007 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN978-0-521-84962-3hardback ISBN978-0-521-61486-3paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityfor thepersistenceoraccuracyofURLsforexternalor third-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. CONTENTS Notesoncontributors pageix Introduction–Literatureonscreen:asynopticview DEBORAH CARTMELL AND IMELDA WHELEHAN 1 13 PART ONE THEORIES OF LITERATURE ON SCREEN 1 Readingfilmandliterature BRIAN McFARLANE 15 2 Literatureonscreen,ahistory:inthegap TIMOTHY CORRIGAN 29 45 PART TWO HISTORY AND CONTEXTS 3 Gospelnarrativesonsilentfilm JUDITH BUCHANAN 47 4 WilliamShakespeare,filmmaker DOUGLAS LANIER 61 5 Thenineteenth-centurynovelonfilm:JaneAusten LINDA V. TROOST 75 6 Modernismandadaptation MARTIN HALLIWELL 90 7 Postmodernadaptation:pastiche,intertextualityand re-functioning PETER BROOKER 107 vii CONTENTS PART THREE GENRE, INDUSTRY, TASTE 121 8 Heritageandliteratureonscreen:Heimatandheritage ECKART VOIGTS-VIRCHOW 123 9 ‘‘Don’tlet’saskforthemoon!’’:readingandviewingthe woman’sfilm IMELDA WHELEHAN 138 10 Post-classicalfantasycinema:TheLordoftheRings I.Q. HUNTER 154 11 Adaptingchildren’sliterature DEBORAH CARTMELL 167 12 Literatureonthesmallscreen:televisionadaptations SARAH CARDWELL 181 PART FOUR BEYOND THE ‘‘LITERARY’’ 197 13 Classicliteratureandanimation:alladaptationsareequal,but somearemoreequalthanothers PAUL WELLS 199 14 Highfidelity?Musicinscreenadaptations ANNETTE DAVISON 212 15 Fromscreentotext:novelization,thehiddencontinent JAN BAETENS 226 16 Apracticalunderstandingofliteratureonscreen:two conversationswithAndrewDavies DEBORAH CARTMELL AND IMELDA WHELEHAN 239 Furtherreading 252 Index 263 viii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS JANBAETENSteachesattheInstituteforCulturalStudiesoftheUniversityofLeuven. Hisresearchareasare:photography,literarytheory,andwordandimagestudies. With Marc Lits, he co-edited the bilingual volume Novelization: From Film to Novel(2004). PETER BROOKER is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham.HisrecentpublicationsincludeModernityandMetropolis:Writing, FilmandUrbanFormations(2002);BohemiainLondon:TheSocialSceneofEarly Modernism (2004); and Geographies of Modernism (as co-editor; 2005). He is co-director of the AHRC-funded (Arts and Humanities Research Council) ModernistMagazinesProjectandco-editorofaforthcomingthree-volumecritical andculturalhistoryofmodernistmagazines.Heplansabookon‘‘Newness.’’ JUDITHBUCHANANisSeniorLecturerinFilmStudiesintheDepartmentofEnglishat the University of York. She is the author of Shakespeare on Film (2005) and her monographonShakespeareonSilentFilmisforthcomingwithCambridgeUniversity Press.Herworkonbiblicalfilmsofthesilenteraformsthebasisofhernextproject. SARAHCARDWELL isSeniorLecturerinFilmandTelevisionStudiesattheUniversity ofKent.SheistheauthorofAdaptationRevisited:TelevisionandtheClassicNovel (2002)andAndrewDavies(2005),aswellasmanyarticlesandessayswithinfilm, television,andadaptationstudies. DEBORAH CARTMELL isPrincipalLecturer,SubjectLeaderofEnglishandHeadof the Graduate Centre at De Montfort University. She is author of Interpreting Shakespeare on Screen (2000); co-editor of Adaptations: From Text to Screen, Screen to Text (1999), the Film/Fiction series (Pluto Books, 1996–2001), and Shakespeare (2005–). She is currently working on Literature on Screen: An OverviewwithImeldaWhelehan. TIMOTHY CORRIGAN isaProfessorofCinemaStudies,English,andHistoryofArt, andDirectorofCinemaStudiesattheUniversityofPennsylvania.Hisworkinfilm ix
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