A Companion to Literature and Film

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A Companion to Literature and Film offers a comprehensive and groundbreaking exploration of the dynamic relationships between world literature and film. Through twenty-five essays by international experts, it covers key concepts such as dialogism, intertextuality, and adaptation as critique and rewriting of source material. The work addresses cultural debates like iconophobia and word/image conflicts, theoretical innovations including 'transecriture' and intermediality, genre analyses, and the interplay with other media forms such as photography and painting. A blend of theory and detailed readings reshapes literature and film studies, making this an essential resource for understanding adaptations and their broader cultural contexts.
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An invaluable resource for scholars, postgraduate students, and serious enthusiasts of literature and film studies, especially those interested in adaptation theory and interdisciplinary cultural analysis.

A Companion to Literature in Film provides state-of-the-art research on world literature, film, and the complex theoretical relationship between them. 25 essays by international experts cover the most important topics in the study of literature and film adaptations.

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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.

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Eric Smoodin, University of California at Davis, praises the volume as a model for consolidating film and literature studies across diverse topics and audiences, highlighting its value to scholars, undergraduates, and enthusiasts of novels and movies alike.

Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam, describes it as a surprising and indispensable guide, noting its conceptual clarity, interdisciplinary range, and wealth of ideas, serving both experts and newcomers to the field.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781405177559

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 December 2007

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Contributors:

Edited by Robert Stam
Edited by Alessandra Raengo
Edited by Robert Stam
Edited by Alessandra Raengo
Edited by Robert Stam
Edited by Alessandra Raengo

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 248.0mm

Weight: 835g

Pages: 480

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About the Author

Robert Stam is University Professor at New York University. His many books include Film Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell, 2000), Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (with Ella Shohat, 1994), and Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism and Film (1989). With Toby Miller, he is the editor of Film and Theory (Blackwell, 2000) and The Blackwell Companion to Film Theory (2000).

Alessandra Raengo is finishing her PhD in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University, where she occasionally teaches. Her dissertation explores race and vernacular social criticism in American culture between 1945 and 1968. Among her publications are The Birth of Film Genres (1999) and The Bounds of Representation (2000), both multilingual volumes edited with Leonardo Quaresima and Laura Vichi.

A Companion to Literature and Film