Adaptations: From Text to Screen, Screen to TextDeborah Cartmell, Imelda Whelehan Adaptations considers the theoretical and practical difficulties surrounding the translation of a text into film, and the reverse process; the novelisation of films. Through three sets of case studies, the contributors examine the key debates surrounding adaptations: whether screen versions of literary classics can be faithful to the text; if something as capsulated as Jane Austens irony can even be captured on film; whether costume dramas always of their own time and do adaptations remake their parent text to reflect contemporary ideas and concerns. |
Contents
Introduction | 23 |
The Shakespeare on screen industry | 29 |
Sense and Sensibility | 38 |
From Emma to Clueless Taste pleasure and the scene of history | 51 |
The 1995 cinematic version | 63 |
Three films and a novel | 81 |
Will Hollywood never learn? David Cronenbergs Naked Lunch | 98 |
Schindlers List intellectuals | 113 |
The transformations of Trainspotting | 128 |
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