Anne-Marie Scholz

From Fidelity to History

Film Adaptations as Cultural Events in the Twentieth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Scholarly approaches to the relationship between literature and film, ranging from the traditional focus upon fidelity to more recent issues of intertextuality, all contain a significant blind spot: a lack of theoretical and methodological attention to adaptation as an historical and transnational phenomenon. This book argues for a historically informed approach to American popular culture that reconfigures the classically defined adaptation phenomenon as a form of transnational reception. Focusing on several case studies- including the films Sense and Sensibility (1995) and The Portrait of a Lady (1997), and the classics The Third Man (1949) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)-the author demonstrates the ways adapted literary works function as social and cultural events in history and how these become important sites of cultural negotiation and struggle.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780857457318
• ISBN-10: 0857457314
• Artikelnr.: 38557481

Autorenporträt

Anne-Marie Scholz holds a teaching affiliation with the University of Bremen, Germany and is currently an Adjunct Professor of American Studies at the University of Konstanz. She is also a freelance language teacher and translator. She has published in The European Journal of American Studies, Film and History, Amerikastudien/American Studies, and German History and has taught at the Universities of Bonn, Hamburg, TA¿bingen, Bremen, and the University of California, Irvine.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements
Introduction: Adaptation as Reception: How Film Historians Can Contribute
to the 'Literature to Film' Debates
Part I: Post Cold War Readings of the Receptions of Anglo-American
Hollywood Adaptations in Cold War West Germany: 1950-1963
Chapter 1. "Eine Revolution des Films": The Third Man (1949), The Cold War,
and Alternatives to Nationalism and 'Coca-colonization' in Europe Chapter
2. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Revisited: Combat Cinema, American
Culture and the German Past Chapter 3. "Josef K von 1963": Orson Welles'
'Americanized' Version of the The Trial and the Changing Functions of the
'Kafkaesque' in Cold War West Germany
Part II: Postfeminist Relations between 'Classic' Texts and Hollywood Film
Adaptations in the United States in the 1990s: Introduction
Chapter 4. "Jane-Mania": The Jane Austen Film Boom in the 1990s Chapter 5.
Thelma and Sense and Louise and Sensibility: Challenging Dichotomies in
Women's History Through Film and Literature Chapter 6. "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
Appendix I: Mediating Apparent and Latent Content (Tables 1 & 2) Appendix
II: Model of Adaptation as a Process of Reception
Archival Collections Consulted Filmography Primary Literary Works Selected
Bibliography Index