From Fidelity to History

Film Adaptations as Cultural Events in the Twentieth Century

von Anne-Marie Scholz

240 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Scholarly approaches to the relationship between literature and film, ranging from the traditional focus upon fidelity to more recent issues of intertextuality, all contain a significant blind spot: a lack of theoretical and methodological attention to adaptation as an historical and transnational phenomenon. This book argues for a historically informed approach to American popular culture that reconfigures the classically defined adaptation phenomenon as a form of transnational reception. Focusing on several case studies- including the films Sense and Sensibility (1995) and The Portrait of a Lady (1997), and the classics The Third Man (1949) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)-the author demonstrates the ways adapted literary works function as social and cultural events in history and how these become important sites of cultural negotiation and struggle.

• Reihe: Transatlantic Perspectives
• Themen: Kunst Darstellende Künste Film, Kino
• ISBN: 9780857457318
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.04.2013
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books