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The Writer on Film This page intentionally left blank The Writer on Film Screening Literary Authorship Edited by Judith Buchanan © Judith Buchanan 2013 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. 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Typeset by MPS Limited, Chennai, India. for M and D, with love This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Figures ix Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgements xiv Introduction 3 Image, story, desire: the writer on film Judith Buchanan Part I Cinema’s Versions and Uses of Literary Lives 1 The writer in film: authorship and imagination 35 Laura Marcus Gendered Authorship I 2 ‘Here is the story of my career…’: the woman writer on film 50 Sonia Haiduc Gendered Authorship II 3 ‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’: the male poet in Sylvia (2003) and The Edge of Love (2008) 64 Siân Harris Romantic Authorship 4 Romantic genius on screen: Jane Campion’s Bright Star (2009) and Julien Temple’s Pandaemonium (2000) 77 Julian North Authorship Iconized, Metonymized, Debunked 5 The ‘tables of memory’: Shakespeare, cinema and the writing desk 92 Megan Murray-Pepper Authorship Commercialized 6 Brit-lit biopics, 1990–2010 106 Andrew Higson 7 Literary biopics: a literary biographer’s perspective 121 Geoffrey Wall vii viii Contents Part II Cinema’s Authorial Proxies and Fictional Authors Authorial Proxies I 8 Hemingway adapted: screening the star author 137 R. Barton Palmer Authorial Proxies II 9 Becoming Jane in screen adaptations of Austen’s fiction 151 Deborah Cartmell Authorial Proxies III 10 Duplicated and duplicitous self-configurings in Kaufman’s Adaptation (2002) 164 Gennelle Smith Architectures of Accreditation 11 Writing the endings of cinema: saving film authorship in the cinematic paratexts of Prospero’s Books, Taymor’s The Tempest and The Secret of Kells 178 Richard Burt Fictional Writers on Screen I: Letters 12 Deliveries of absence: epistolary structures in classical cinema 193 Clara Rowland Fictional Writers on Screen II: Diaries 13 ‘Far from literature’: writing as bare act in Robert Bresson’s Journal d’un curé de campagne (1951) 206 Erica Sheen Fictional Writers on Screen III: Plays and Factual Reports 14 Documentary li(v)es: writing falsehoods, righting wrongs in von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others (2006) 218 Judith Buchanan Select Filmography 236 Bibliography 246 Index 259 List of Figures Figures I.1 Stills from: (a) A Tale of Two Cities (dir. Frank Lloyd, 1917); (b) Julia (dir. Fred Zinnemann, 1977); (c) Prospero’s Books (dir. Peter Greenaway, 1991); (d) The Lives of Others (dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006); (e) Becoming Jane (dir. Julian Jarrold, 2007); (f) Howl (dirs Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, 2010) 2 I.2 Copyright deposit still from Georges Méliès’ Shakespeare Writing Julius Caesar (1907). Courtesy of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress 8 I.3 Still from Shakespeare Writing Julius Caesar (1907). Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art Film Library, New York 8 I.4a–f Stills from Enid (2009) 11 I.5a–d Stills from Howl (2010) 13 I.6 Still from Anonymous (2011) 20 I.7 The Ben Jonson dedicatory poem and Droeshout engraving on facing pages in the frontismatter to the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio 21 2.1 Still from Julia (1977) 54 3.1 Stills from Sylvia (2003) 68 4.1 Stills from Bright Star (2009) 83 5.1 Still from Prospero’s Books (1991) 99 6.1 Still from Mansfield Park (1999) 116 6.2 Still from Becoming Jane (2007) 116 8.1 Stills from The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) 145 9.1 Still from Becoming Jane (2007) 155 9.2 Still from Shakespeare in Love (1998) 156 10.1–10.2 Stills from Adaptation (2002) 169 11.1a–d Stills from Sleeping Beauty (1959) 181 11.2 Still from The Tempest (dir. Julie Taymor, 2010) 183 ix