Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation

ISBN 10: 0631230556 / ISBN 13: 9780631230557

Published by Blackwell Publishing, 2004

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pp. 376.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631230556
• ISBN 13: 9780631230557
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Literature and Film is a cornucopia of vibrant essays that chart the history and confluence of literature and film. It explores in detail a wide and international spectrum of novels and adaptations, bringing together the very latest scholarship in the field.

About the Author

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. 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.