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Literature and Film is a cornucopia of vibrant essays that chart the history and confluence of literature and film. It explores in detail a wide and international spectrum of novels and adaptations, bringing together the very latest scholarship in the field.
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This first volume of a three-volume series on filmic adaptations of novels focuses on individual novels and their translations into film. Stam (film and media studies, NYU) traces the theory and practice of adaptation in his introductory chapter. The subsequent essays examine such topics as adaptation and transmutations of the national in The Last of the Mohicans, Proust and film, familial dread in Cape Fear and oral traditions, literature and cinema in Africa. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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