Written specifically with the student in mind and focusing on a number of well-known texts, including Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Nicholas Nickleby, Nice Work and The Color Purple, the contributions in this book demonstrate how we can look critically at literary adaptations and learn to distinguish between mythical images and the reality of the process that constructed them. They argue that adaptations should not be seen as secondary or marginal, because through them we can enter into an exciting debate with the literary text itself. Originally published in 1993.
Author(s): Peter Reynolds
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature, Vol. 4
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1993
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
1 DANGEROUS LES'S LIAISONS
2 DISMEMBERING DEVILS The demonology of Arashi ga oka (1988) and Wuthering Heights (1939)
3 DICKENS AND ADAPTATION Imagery in words and pictures
4 ADAPTING DICKENS TO THE MODERN EYE Nicholas Nickleby and Little Dorrit
5 'THE DEVIL IS BEAUTIFUL' Dracula: Freudian novel and feminist drama
6. A WOMAN'S LOVE D. H. Lawrence on film
7 SHARED DREAMS Reproducing Gone with the Wind
8 SPIES IN THE HOUSE OF QUALITY The American reception of Brideshead Revisited
9 FROM WALKER TO SPIELBERG Transformations of The Color Purple
10 A PLAY FOR ENGLAND The Royal Court adapts The Playmaker
11 ADAPTING NICE WORK FOR TELEVISION
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