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From:Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (Issue 28) Peer-ReviewedTaking into account the parallel rise and development of cinema in the Arab world in the twentieth century with that of the Arabic novel, this article analyzes the relationship between film and novel through a study of...
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From:Southwest Review (Vol. 89, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMy favorite Shakespeare movie is Orson Welles's Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight, a film I love for its sad beauty, its powerful performances, and its visual splendors. No Shakespearean film is more remarkable in what it...
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From:Literature-Film Quarterly (Vol. 43, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction: The Proust Project Is Abandoned Accounts of Harold Pinter's abandoned adaptation of A la recherche du temps perdu vary considerably. Often overlooked by critics, who prefer to dive straight into the...
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From:Literature-Film Quarterly (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedShakespeare's Hamlet is a text replete with surveillance; nearly every character plays the roles of watcher and watched at some point in the play. To cite a partial list of examples: in 1.1, Horatio and the guards watch...
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From:Literature-Film Quarterly (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn late November of 1923 readers of the Chicago Tribune, the city's leading newspaper, were confronted with a large advertisement (Fig. 1). It promised "tragedy--freedom--beauty--love--passion" and much more if only...
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From:The Oxfordian (Vol. 23) Peer-ReviewedI have been deeply involved with Shakespeare most of my life, active in the authorship movement, and even managed a small theatre company in Boston that produced several of the plays. As a result, I have some strongly...
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From:Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal (Vol. 28)MANSFIELD PARK IS THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL of all Jane Austen's novels, mainly because readers are unable to agree in their assessment of the novel's heroine, Fanny Price. In adapting the novel to the screen, Patricia...
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From:Literature-Film Quarterly (Vol. 40, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHere in the still-early days of internet discourse, scholars are in the enviable position of having resources and forums available to them beyond books and journals in print. While the sheer amount of new content...
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From:Literature-Film Quarterly (Vol. 39, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPitting her involvement in an early 1970s stage production of one of Shakespeare's plays (1) against her role as Edwina Lionheart in Douglas Hickox's film, Theatre of Blood (1973), actress Diana Rigg remarked, "it...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 35, Issue 2)Fifty-four years after its publication, Ayn Rand's sprawling paean to capitalism, Atlas Shrugged, has finally been filmed--at least the first third of the novel, as part one of what's projected to be a trilogy....
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 82, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's award-winning novel The Road is slated for wide-release on November 11. McCarthy's post-apocalyptic nightmare stars Viggo Mortensen (A History of Violence, Lord of the Rings),...
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From:Music and the Moving Image (Vol. 8, Issue 1)The film adaptation of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot reinserts sex into the musicalized legend. This article examines key scenes, including musical numbers, that focus on the relationships between the two primary (and...
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From:Literature-Film Quarterly (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGenre-based approaches to the cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare's plays have resulted in the production of a multitude of generic films, ranging from those that openly embrace a genre framework to those less readily...
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From:Literature-Film Quarterly (Vol. 38, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedLegends linking murderous barbers and cannibalism go back at least as far as the seventeenth century, but London's infamous Sweeney Todd made his first "official" appearance by name in the anonymous "penny blood" The...
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From:Literature-Film Quarterly (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhen Norman Mailer described Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho as "a monstrous book with a monstrous thesis," he clearly used the word monstrous as a value judgment on the graphic murder sequences of the novel--rather...
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From:The Hemingway Review (Vol. 39, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn his review of the second film adaptation of A Farewell to Arms (1957), Philip Roth claims the trouble with the movie is that "to be the least bit convincing or moving, it demands that the viewer help along...
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From:Literature-Film Quarterly (Vol. 34, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAn adaptation is, among other things, a reading. While the resultant text may seek to alter or subvert elements of the original its point of origin is always the same: an encounter between the adapter, or adapters, and...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 39, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedGeorges Melies's La Voyage Dans La Lune [Voyage to the moon] (1902), the first science fiction film (Pohl 214), or at least the first science fiction blockbuster seen all over Europe and America (Frazer 99), conveniently...
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From:Literature-Film Quarterly (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOriginally published in 1969 and frequently anthologized in contemporary short story collections aimed at high school and university students, Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" continues to...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 11, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn his article "The Gay Artist as Tragic Hero in The Picture of Dorian Gray" Henry M. Alley discusses the central artistic figure in Oscar Wilde's novel, Basil Hallward. As the novel's tragic protagonist, he commands...