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Book SynopsisEvaluates the term 'classic', discussing a wide range of films and texts including Jane Eyre, The Tempest and Alice in Wonderland
Trade Review'An essential volume for readers interested in the theory and practice of film adaptation and canon formation' -- SCOPE: An Online Journal of Film Studies
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Classics across the film/literature divide by Heidi Kaye and Imelda Whelehan
1. ‘If Only You Could See What I’ve Seen with Your Eyes’: Bladerunner and Symphonie Pastorale by Nick Peim
2. Classic Shakespeare for All: Forbidden Planet and Prospero's Books, Two Screen Adaptations of The Tempest by Sara Martin
3. The Red and the Blue: Jane Eyre in the Nineties by Lisa Hopkins
4. Transcultural Aesthetics and the Film Adaptations of Henry James by Martin Halliwell
5. ‘Hystorical’ Puritanism: Contemporary Cinematic Adaptations of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible by Sergio Rizzo
6. Mrs Dalloway and Orlando: The Subject of Time and Generic Transactions by Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps
7. ‘Desire Projected Itself Visually’: Watching Death in Venice by Stuart Burrows
8. Leopold Bloom Walks and Jimmy Stewart Stares: On Motion, Genre, and the Classic by Kay Young
9. Trial and Error: Combinatory Fidelity in Two Versions of Franz Kafka's The Trial by Paul M. Malone
10. In Cold Blood: Yellow Birds, New Realism and Killer Culture by Paul Wells
11. Home by Tea-time: Fear of Imagination in Disney’s Alice in
Wonderland by Deborah Ross
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