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Books and Plays in Films, 1896-1915

Author : Denis Gifford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Books and Plays in Films, 1896-1915 written by Denis Gifford and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the world's first catalogue of cinematograph films adapted from literary, artistic and other media sources for the period 1896 through 1915: the first twenty years of motion pictures. It includes novels, plays, non-fiction books, short stories, biographies, poems,operas, songs, cartoons and comic strips. The main arrangement is by author/creator, whose 861 names are arranged alphabetically, under which the film adaptations are listed chronologically. This book relates only to silent pictures, of course, and as production and distribution was global at the time, films are included from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Australia, Canada, Scandinavia, Japan and other countries. A checklist of the 239 film companies included will be found as an appendix in the back of the book.

The History of American Literature on Film

Author : Thomas Leitch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628923717
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of American Literature on Film by : Thomas Leitch

Download or read book The History of American Literature on Film written by Thomas Leitch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From William Dickson's Rip Van Winkle films (1896) to Baz Luhrmann's big-budget production of The Great Gatsby (2013) and beyond, cinematic adaptations of American literature participate in a rich and fascinating history. Unlike previous studies of American literature and film, which emphasize particular authors like Edith Wharton and Nathaniel Hawthorne, particular texts like Moby-Dick, particular literary periods like the American Renaissance, or particular genres like the novel, this volume considers the multiple functions of filmed American literature as a cinematic genre in its own right-one that reflects the specific political and aesthetic priorities of different national and historical cinemas even as it plays a decisive role in defining American literature for a global audience.

Early Cinema

Author : Simon Popple
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023185031X
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Early Cinema written by Simon Popple and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the reader to the study of cinema as a series of aesthetic, technological, cultural, ideological and economic debates while exploring new and challenging approaches to the subject. It explores the period 1895 to 1914 when cinema established itself as the leading form of visual culture among rapidly expanding global media, emerging from a rich tradition of scientific, economic, entertainment and educational practices and quickly developing as a worldwide institution.

The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre

Author : Colin Chambers
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847146120
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre written by Colin Chambers and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-05-14 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International in scope, this book is designed to be the pre-eminent reference work on the English-speaking theatre in the twentieth century. Arranged alphabetically, it consists of some 2500 entries written by 280 contributors from 20 countries which include not only top-level experts, but, uniquely, leading professionals from the world of theatre. A fascinating resource for anyone interested in theatre, it includes: - Overviews of major concepts, topics and issues; - Surveys of theatre institutions, countries, and genres; - Biographical entries on key performers, playwrights, directors, designers, choreographers and composers; - Articles by leading professionals on crafts, skills and disciplines including acting, design, directing, lighting, sound and voice.

Stage and Screen

Author : Bert Cardullo
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441168699
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Stage and Screen written by Bert Cardullo and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic and new essays examining the historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationships between theater and film.

A Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation

Author : Deborah Cartmell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118917537
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation by : Deborah Cartmell

Download or read book A Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation written by Deborah Cartmell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive collection of original essays that explore the aesthetics, economics, and mechanics of movie adaptation, from the days of silent cinema to contemporary franchise phenomena. Featuring a range of theoretical approaches, and chapters on the historical, ideological and economic aspects of adaptation, the volume reflects today’s acceptance of intertextuality as a vital and progressive cultural force. Incorporates new research in adaptation studies Features a chapter on the Harry Potter franchise, as well as other contemporary perspectives Showcases work by leading Shakespeare adaptation scholars Explores fascinating topics such as ‘unfilmable’ texts Includes detailed considerations of Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

The Lasting of the Mohicans

Author : Martin Barker
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617035029
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Lasting of the Mohicans written by Martin Barker and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does this book that everyone knows but that few have read continue to be perennially attractive for the media? In answer to this question, this study throws a new light on the idea of frontier and on the meaning of the American Dream.

Movie Comics

Author : Blair Davis
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813572274
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Movie Comics written by Blair Davis and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Christopher Nolan’s Batman films and releases from the Marvel Cinematic Universe have regularly topped the box office charts, fans and critics alike might assume that the “comic book movie” is a distinctly twenty-first-century form. Yet adaptations of comics have been an integral part of American cinema from its very inception, with comics characters regularly leaping from the page to the screen and cinematic icons spawning comics of their own. Movie Comics is the first book to study the long history of both comics-to-film and film-to-comics adaptations, covering everything from silent films starring Happy Hooligan to sound films and serials featuring Dick Tracy and Superman to comic books starring John Wayne, Gene Autry, Bob Hope, Abbott & Costello, Alan Ladd, and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. With a special focus on the Classical Hollywood era, Blair Davis investigates the factors that spurred this media convergence, as the film and comics industries joined forces to expand the reach of their various brands. While analyzing this production history, he also tracks the artistic coevolution of films and comics, considering the many formal elements that each medium adopted and adapted from the other. As it explores our abiding desire to experience the same characters and stories in multiple forms, Movie Comics gives readers a new appreciation for the unique qualities of the illustrated page and the cinematic moving image.

The Cine Goes to Town

Author : Richard Abel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520079361
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Cine Goes to Town written by Richard Abel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of French film

Acts of Desire

Author : Sos Eltis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199691355
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Acts of Desire written by Sos Eltis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acts of Desire is a study of theatrical depictions of illicit female sexuality, from seduction and prostitution to bigamy and adultery, from the beginning of the nineteenth century through to the 1930s.

Adaptations in the Sound Era

Author : Deborah Cartmell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 162356042X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Adaptations in the Sound Era written by Deborah Cartmell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tracks and reflects on the presence and marketing of 'words' in the early sound era, from adaptations of Shakespeare and 19th Century novels, to biopics"--

Adaptations

Author : Deborah Cartmell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501315390
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Adaptations written by Deborah Cartmell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adaptations: Critical and Primary Sources is a three-volume reference resource that brings together over 80 landmark texts in adaptation studies. Volume One covers the history of adaptation studies, by plotting the 'prehistory' of the field, beginning with Vachel Lindsay's classic Art of the Moving Picture (1915), through Virginia Woolf's classic essay on 'The Cinema' through to some of the most important critical and theoretical interventions up until the 1990s when the area really emerges as a critical force in the academy. Volume Two collects essays from the last 25 years, showing how the scholarly legacy laid out in Volume One still has a profound impact on adaptation studies today, while charting the process of critical and theoretical maturation. This volume shows how adaptations studies has outgrown its contested place 'in the gap' of film and literary studies and how its interventions transcend disciplinary perspectives across the arts and humanities. Volume Three covers key case studies, such as Christine Geraghty's take on adapting Westerns, Ian Inglis' understanding of the transformation of music into movies, and Eckart Voigts' concept on Jane Austen and participatory culture. With topics ranging from the limitations of the novel to adapting stage to screen, contributions from a wide range of international scholars, film critics and novelists combine to make Adaptations: Critical and Primary Sources an original overview of critical debates today. Cartmell and Whelehan introduce each excerpt and offer a critical overview of the collected work, the rationale for its inclusion and suggestions for further reading."--

In the Garden

Author : Angelica Shirley Carpenter
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810852884
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book In the Garden written by Angelica Shirley Carpenter and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of articles about the life and work of Frances Hodgson Burnett. The broad range of subjects and the varied backgrounds of the contributing authors are a tribute to Burnett's wide and international appeal. The book includes articles by three Burnett biographers, criticism of Burnett's works, and literary and social analysis of her books by scholars from several countries. These range from Pulitzer Prize winner Alison Lurie to new scholars who are being published here for the first time. The articles range from essays to transcripts of interviews and speeches and a filmography. The book presents new research on films and plays based on Burnett books. The primary organization of the essays is chronological, but the book is also arranged to reflect the structure of the 'Frances Hodgson Burnett: Beyond the Secret Garden Conference, ' held at California State University, Fresno, April 25-27, 2003

The Tudors on Film and Television

Author : Sue Parrill
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786458917
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Tudors on Film and Television written by Sue Parrill and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its mix of family drama, sex and violence, Britain's Tudor dynasty (1485-1603) has long excited the interest of filmmakers and moviegoers. Since the birth of movie-making technology, the lives and times of kings Henry VII, Henry VIII, and Edward VI and queens Mary I, Jane Grey and Elizabeth I have remained popular cinematic themes. From 1895's The Execution of Mary Stuart to 2011's Anonymous, this comprehensive filmography chronicles every known movie about the Tudor era, including feature films; made-for-television films, mini-series, and series; documentaries; animated films; and shorts. From royal biographies to period pieces to modern movies with flashbacks or time travel, this work reveals how these films both convey the attitudes of Tudor times and reflect the era in which they were made.

Take Two

Author : Barbara Tepa Lupack
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879726423
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Take Two written by Barbara Tepa Lupack and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of contemporary literature and film analyze the film adaptations of ten contemporary American novels--Catch-22, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Slaughterhouse-Five, Being There, The World According to Garp, Sophie's Choice, The Color Purple, Ironweed, Tough Guys Don't Dance, and Billy Bathgate--offering critical insight into the visions of both the novelist and the filmmaker as well as discussion of how those visions converge and diverge. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Europe of 1500-1815 on Film and Television

Author : Michael Klossner
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Europe of 1500-1815 on Film and Television written by Michael Klossner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2002 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The geographic scope of this work is all of Europe, European Russia, Great Britain, Ireland, Iceland, the Mediterranean Islands such as Sicily and Corsica, the Caucasus area north of Turkey, including territory now in the new republics of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, and the Balkans and Greece. There are entries for shorts, animation, silents, television series, films (both theatrical and made-for-television releases), miniseries, epics, war films, dramas, literary adaptations, comedies, horrors, mysteries, musical comedies, and operettas. Complete entries provide such particulars as the title, date, alternate title(s), black & white or color, nationality, director, production company, length, producer, screenplay writer, literary source, cinematographer, score composer, actors (in order of importance) with character names and a brief synopsis or description, commentary, and references to the Variety review and one other filmographic source. Most of the titles were produced in Europe or Hollywood, but a few were made in such countries as Japan, Canada, Australia, Mexico, and Argentina. Productions based on Shakespeare's plays themselves are omitted; those based on his life are included. Opera and ballet films are omitted but musical comedy and operetta films are included, as are silent films based on operas. Fairy tales are out but folkloric works are in. Documentaries are not included. Subject (places, periods, events, and historical figures) and name indexes allow for easy reference.

The Cambridge History of American Theatre

Author : Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521651790
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Theatre written by Don B. Wilmeth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of the authoritative, multi-volume Cambridge History of American Theatre, first published in 1999, begins in the post-Civil War period and traces the development of American theatre up to 1945. It covers all aspects of theatre from plays and playwrights, through actors and acting, to theatre groups and directors. Topics examined include vaudeville and popular entertainment, European influences, theatre in and beyond New York, the rise of the Little Theatre movement, changing audiences, modernism, the Federal Theatre movement, scenography, stagecraft, and architecture. Contextualising chapters explore the role of theatre within the context of American social and cultural history, and the role of American theatre in relation to theatre in Europe and beyond. This definitive history of American theatre includes contributions from the following distinguished academics - Thomas Postlewait, John Frick, Tice L. Miller, Ronald Wainscott, Brenda Murphy, Mark Fearnow, Brooks McNamara, Thomas Riis, Daniel J. Watermeier, Mary C. Henderson, and Warren Kliewer.