From fidelity to history : film adaptations as cultural events in the twentieth century /: film adaptations as cultural events in the twentieth century. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Anne-Marie Scholz.
• Other Names: Scholz, Anne-Marie
• Contents: Introduction -- Adaptation as reception: how film historians can contribute to the "literature to film" debates -- Post Cold War readings of the receptions of Anglo-American Hollywood. Adaptations in Cold War West Germany: 1950-1963 -- "Eine revolution des films": The third man (1949), the Cold War, and alternatives to nationalism and "coca-colonization" in Europe -- The bridge on the River Kwai (1957) revisited: combat cinema, American culture and the German past -- "Josef K von 1963": Orson Welles' "Americanized" version of the the trial and the changing functions of the "Kafkaesque" in Cold War West Germany -- Postfeminist relations between "classic" texts and Hollywood film adaptations in the United States in the 1990s: Introduction. "Jane-mania": the Jane Austen film boom in the 1990s -- Thelma and sense and Louise and sensibility: challenging dichotomies in women's history through film and literature -- "Jamesian proportions": the Henry James film boom in the 1990s -- Conclusion -- A case for the "case study": the future of adaptation studies as a branch of transnational film history.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 227 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 791.43/6; Film adaptations -- History and criticism; Motion pictures and literature; Motion pictures and history; Film adaptations; Motion pictures and history; Motion pictures and literature; Verfilmung; Literatur; USA; Deutschland; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857457325; 0857457322
• Related ISBNs: 9780857457318; 0857457314
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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