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Essays on the links between film and fiction, and their mutual influence. Fiction and film interrelate closely to each other, and the specially commissioned essays in this volume all consider different aspects of this relationship. Beginning with discussions of Dickens and Victorian literature, the contributors, all leading scholars in this field, demonstrate how visual devices like the magic lantern caught the interest of writers and affected their choice of subject and method. The impact of the cinema on the British modernistsis then discussed, and the remaining essays provide detailed case studies on such subjects as Hemingway, Updike, and the depiction of women in contemporary fiction and film.

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Optical Recreations and Victorian Literature - John Plunkett The Travelling Lanternist and the Uncommercial Traveller: An Experiment in Correspondences - Grahame Smith British Modernist Encounters with the Cinema - David Seed Killing `The Killers': Hemingway, Hollywood and Death - Oliver Harris Burning Too: Consuming Fahrenheit 451 - Mark Bould Updike's Golden Oldies: Rabbit as Spectacular Man - Judie Newman On Conversation - Carol Watts Transcendence through Violence: Women and the Martial Arts in Recent American Fiction and Film - Deborah L. Madsen

Literature and the Visual Media

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      Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
      Published 30 August 2005
      ISBN-13 9781843840565
      978-1843840565
      ISBN-10 1843840561
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Essays on the links between film and fiction, and their mutual influence. Fiction and film interrelate closely to each other, and the specially commissioned essays in this volume all consider different aspects of this relationship. Beginning with discussions of Dickens and Victorian literature, the contributors, all leading scholars in this field, demonstrate how visual devices like the magic lantern caught the interest of writers and affected their choice of subject and method. The impact of the cinema on the British modernistsis then discussed, and the remaining essays provide detailed case studies on such subjects as Hemingway, Updike, and the depiction of women in contemporary fiction and film.

      Table of Contents
      Optical Recreations and Victorian Literature - John Plunkett The Travelling Lanternist and the Uncommercial Traveller: An Experiment in Correspondences - Grahame Smith British Modernist Encounters with the Cinema - David Seed Killing `The Killers': Hemingway, Hollywood and Death - Oliver Harris Burning Too: Consuming Fahrenheit 451 - Mark Bould Updike's Golden Oldies: Rabbit as Spectacular Man - Judie Newman On Conversation - Carol Watts Transcendence through Violence: Women and the Martial Arts in Recent American Fiction and Film - Deborah L. Madsen

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