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Informationen zum Autor Robert Stam is University Professor at New York University. His many books include Film Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell, 2000), Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (with Ella Shohat, 1994), and Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism and Film (1989). With Toby Miller, he is the editor of Film and Theory (Blackwell, 2000) and The Blackwell Companion to Film Theory (2000). Alessandra Raengo is finishing her PhD in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University, where she occasionally teaches. Her dissertation explores race and vernacular social criticism in American culture between 1945 and 1968. Among her publications are The Birth of Film Genres (1999) and The Bounds of Representation (2000), both multilingual volumes edited with Leonardo Quaresima and Laura Vichi. Klappentext A Companion to Literature and Film provides state-of-the-art research on world literature, film, and the complex theoretical relationship between them. Twenty-five essays by international experts cover the most important topics in the study of literature and film adaptations. Contributors explore, in a highly innovative and groundbreaking way, important topics in the field. These include: Key issues such as dialogism, hidden intertextuality, and adaptation as readings, critiques, and rewritings of source novels Cultural concerns including iconophobia and the word/image wars Theoretical issues such as "transécriture" and "intermediality" Genre topics including "hagiopic" and the apocalyptic film The relationship with other media, including photography and painting Consideration of format, including seriality, and diverse source material Thematic subjects such as hetero-masculinity in The Talented Mr Ripley and libertinage in the work of Eric Rohmer. The combination of theory and sophisticated readings of novels and adaptations adds up to a tour de force that reshapes and reconfigures the very field of literature and film studies. Zusammenfassung A Companion to Literature in Film provides state--of--the--art research on world literature! film! and the complex theoretical relationship between them. 25 essays by international experts cover the most important topics in the study of literature and film adaptations. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors ix Preface xiv Acknowledgments xvi 1 Novels, Films, and the Word/Image Wars 1 Kamilla Elliott 2 Sacred Word, Profane Image: Theologies of Adaptation 23 Ella Shohat 3 Gospel Truth? From Cecil B. DeMille to Nicholas Ray 46 Pamela Grace 4 Transécriture and Narrative Mediatics: The Stakes of Intermediality 58 André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion 5 The Look: From Film to Novel. An Essay in Comparative Narratology 71 François Jost 6 Adaptation and Mis-adaptations: Film, Literature, and Social Discourses 81 Francesco Casetti 7 The Invisible Novelty: Film Adaptations in the 1910s 92 Yuri Tsivian 8 Italy and America: Pinocchio's First Cinematic Trip 112 Raffaele De Berti 9 The Intertextuality of Early Cinema: A Prologue to Fantômas 127 Tom Gunning 10 Cosmopolitan Projections: World Literature on Chinese Screens 144 Zhang Zhen 11 The Rhetoric of Interruption 164 Allen S. Weiss 12 Visualizing the Voice: Joyce, Cinema, and the Politics of Vision 171 Luke Gibbons 13 Adapting Cinema to History: A Revolution in the Making 189 Dudley Andrew 14 Photographic Verismo, Cinematic Adaptation, and the Staging of a Neorealist Landscape 205 Noa Steimatsky 15 The Devil's P...
