Robert Louis Stevenson: Life, Literature and the Silver Screen - Hardcover

Nollen, Scott Allen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0899507883 ISBN 13: 9780899507880

Publisher: McFarland Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

Robert Louis Stevenson's cinematic legacy is studied in-depth here, with a look at his life and his body of work. From The Sire De Maletroit's Door (1877) to St. Ives (1896), each adapted story and all relevant film versions are examined, including exhaustive analyses of the 1931 adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the 1945 version of The Body Snatcher. A discussion of the process of adapting literature for the movies, demonstrating how Stevenson's stories have been misrepresented for more than 80 years, is also provided.

About this title

About the Author:

Historian Scott Allen Nollen was educated in film and history at the University of Iowa.  Since 1986, he has written and edited more than 40 books on the history of film, literature and music, including volumes on Boris Karloff (now finishing his third), Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, John Ford, John Wayne and Ward Bond, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, Louis Armstrong, Paul Robeson, Frank Sinatra, Takashi Shimura and (with his wife, Yuyun Yuningsih Nollen) Chester Morris.

Review:

"This is an important, extremely well-researched comprehensive resource on all things Robert Louis Stevenson, from the history that inspired him to his echoes in every corner of the popular culture in a century he did not live long enough to experience.  Scott Allen Nollen has created a truly rare achievement with this admirable, highly detailed and superbly written book."-Ernest Mehew, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh

"This is the only such book on the subject, and a very fine one at that." --Seamus Carney

About this edition

• Publisher: McFarland Publishing
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0899507883
• ISBN 13: 9780899507880
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480