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 "transecriture" 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.

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: A Companion to Literature and Film
Pages: 00480 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2007-10-11
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780631230533
Category: Performing Arts : Film & Video - History & Criticism