From fidelity to history film adaptations as cultural events in the twentieth century /

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Main Author: Scholz, Anne-Marie
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Series:Transatlantic perspectives ; 11
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Adaptation as reception: how film historians can contribute to the "literature to film" debates
  • Post Cold War readings of the receptions of Anglo-American Hollywood. Adaptations in Cold War West Germany: 1950-1963
  • "Eine revolution des films": The third man (1949), the Cold War, and alternatives to nationalism and "coca-colonization" in Europe
  • The bridge on the River Kwai (1957) revisited: combat cinema, American culture and the German past
  • "Josef K von 1963": Orson Welles' "Americanized" version of the the trial and the changing functions of the "Kafkaesque" in Cold War West Germany
  • Postfeminist relations between "classic" texts and Hollywood film adaptations in the United States in the 1990s: Introduction. "Jane-mania": the Jane Austen film boom in the 1990s
  • Thelma and sense and Louise and sensibility: challenging dichotomies in women's history through film and literature
  • "Jamesian proportions": the Henry James film boom in the 1990s
  • Conclusion
  • A case for the "case study": the future of adaptation studies as a branch of transnational film history.