Patricia Highsmith on Screen. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Wieland Schwanebeck, Douglas McFarland.
• Editors: Schwanebeck, Wieland; McFarland, Douglas
• Contents: 1.Introduction: Patricia Highsmith on Screen, Douglas McFarland and Wieland Schwanebeck.- 2. The Dark Side of Adaptation, Thomas Leitch.- Section I: Doubles, Copies, and Strangers.- 3.'I Meet a Lot of Guys--But Not Many Like You': Strangers and Types in Highsmith's and Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, Bran Nicol.- 4.Strangers on a Park Bench: From Highsmith to Alfred Hitchcock to Woody Allen, Klara Stephanie Szlezák.- 5.Tom Ripley's Talent, Murray Pomerance.- 6.Ripley Under Ground and Its Illegitimate Heirs, Wieland Schwanebeck.- Section II: Queer Encounters.- 7.Queer Ripley: Minghella, Highsmith, and the Anti-Social.- David Greven.- 8.The Price of Salt, Carol, and Queer Narrative Desire(s), Alison L. McKee.- 9.'Easy Living': From The Price of Salt (78) to Carol (EP), Robert Miklitsch.- Section III: Aesthetic, Mythic, and Cultural Transaction.- 10.Adapting Irony: Claude Chabrol's The Cry of the Owl, Douglas McFarland.- 11.With Friends Like These: Wim Wenders' The American Friend as Noir Allegory, Christopher Breu.- 12.Hans Geissendörfer's Psychological Noir: West-German Adaptations of Patricia Highsmith Novels, Erin Altman and William Mahan.- 13.Authorship and Scales of Adaptation in Chillers, Kristopher Mecholsky.- 14.The Two Faces of January: Theseus and the Minotaur, Catherine McFarland.- Section IV: Adapters in Conversation.- 15.Memories of The American Friend, Wim Wenders.- 16. "Highsmith really writes films", Hans W. Geißendörfer.- 17.'An interesting lack of sentimentality", Hossein Amini.- 18.'Highsmith was the queen of guilt", Phyllis Nagy.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (294 pages)
• Subjects: Culture-Study and teaching; Literary Criticism -- American -- General; Literature: history & criticism; Motion pictures; America-Literatures; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- General; Film, TV & radio
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319960500
• Related ISBNs: 9783319960494
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