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A contribution to literary adaptation studies, this book shifts the focus away from determining a film's allegiance to the original source and redirects the conversation to the industrial choices, audience responses, and socio-cultural factors that contribute to the construction of the cinematic text.

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"Guerric DeBona's new book makes a powerful case that film adaptations are shaped as much by contextual forces as by their literary forbears. Once it is as widely read as it deserves to be, adaptation studies will never be the same.”--Thomas Leitch, author of Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ


"Recommended."--Choice

Film Adaptation in the Hollywood Studio Era

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      Publisher: MO - University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: 5/13/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780252077371, 978-0252077371
      ISBN10: 0252077377
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      Literary studies: plays and playwrights Films, cinema

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A contribution to literary adaptation studies, this book shifts the focus away from determining a film's allegiance to the original source and redirects the conversation to the industrial choices, audience responses, and socio-cultural factors that contribute to the construction of the cinematic text.

      Trade Review

      "Guerric DeBona's new book makes a powerful case that film adaptations are shaped as much by contextual forces as by their literary forbears. Once it is as widely read as it deserves to be, adaptation studies will never be the same.”--Thomas Leitch, author of Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ


      "Recommended."--Choice

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