True to the Spirit
Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 17 February 2011
- ISBN 9780195374667
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 165x241x33 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 13 illustrations 0
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Short description:
Spanning examples from Shakespeare to Ghost World, and addressing such notable directors as Welles, Kubrick, Hawks, Tarkovsky, and Ophuls, the contributors to this volume write against the grain of recent adaption studies by investigating the question of what fidelity might mean in its broadest and truest sense and what it might reveal of the adaptive process.
MoreLong description:
Adaptation persists as a major area of inquiry in both film and literary studies. Over the past two decades, scholars have extended the debate well beyond George Bluestone's influential Novels into Film (1957) by taking into account such concerns as intertextuality and different forms of narrative enabled through new media. A dominant trend has been to dispense straight away with questions of fidelity and "faithfulness," the assumption being that such views are na?ve, moralistic, and rooted in a cultural prejudice against the audiovisual. While acknowledging the merits of this position--namely its complication of the one-way "page-to-screen" perspective--this collection seeks to put the question of fidelity back into play. The essays explore the ways in which the newer, more sophisticated approaches can still accommodate forms of fidelity between two or more texts without having to reinscribe untenable distinctions between "original" and "copy," and without having to argue from a strict media essentialist position that stages an impasse between linguistic and cinematic means of articulation. In addition, the scholars in this volume seek to recognize and account for fidelity's cultural currency among filmmakers and audiences alike, no matter how impossible fidelity might be in a literal sense. The selected essays offer an opportunity to showcase both well established adaptation scholars (Laura Mulvey, Dudley Andrew, Tom Gunning and James Naremore) and emerging voices in the field.
It is not too much to say that this book is simply ground-breaking, easily and by far the best book on this important subject, and one that should be required reading of all film and literature students.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction:
Bazinian Adaptation: The Butcher Boy as Example
Colin MacCabe
The Economies of Adaptation
Dudley Andrew
Literary Appropriation and Translation in Early Cinema: Adapting Gerhardt
Hauptmann's Atlantis in 1913
Tom Gunning
Hearts of Darkness: Joseph Conrad and Orson Welles
James Naremore
Max Ophuls's Auteurist Adaptations
Laura Mulvey
To Have and Have Not: An Adaptive System
Kathleen Murray
Happier with Dreams: Constructing the Lisbon Girls through Nondiegetic Sound in
The Virgin Suicides
Stephanie McKnight
Universalizing a Nation and the Adaptation of Trainspotting
Shelagh Patterson
Getting Away with Homage: The Alternative Universes of Ghost World
Jonathan Loucks
Indexing an Icon: T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom and David Lean's
Lawrence of Arabia
Alison Patterson
Shades of Horror: Fidelity and Genre in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
Jarrell D. Wright
Contempt Revisited: Godard at the Margins of Adaptation
Rick Warner
Afterword:
Adaptation as a Philosophical Problem
Fredric Jameson
Notes on Contributors
Index
