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Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ
Thomas Leitch
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Paperback. The range of films studied, from silent Shakespeare to Sherlock Holmes to The Lord of the Rings, is as broad as the problems that come under review. Num Pages: 372 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
I would highly recommend Leitch's study, in particular for its diversity and complexity. The author demonstrates that he is familiar with a large and heterogeneous corpus, including canonical as well as popular or marginal films and texts, which adaptation studies can only benefit from.
I would highly recommend Leitch's study, in particular for its diversity and complexity. The author demonstrates that he is familiar with a large and heterogeneous corpus, including canonical as well as popular or marginal films and texts, which adaptation studies can only benefit from.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
370
Condition
New
Number of Pages
372
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801892714
SKU
V9780801892714
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About Thomas Leitch
Thomas Leitch is a professor of English at the University of Delaware.
Reviews for Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ
I would highly recommend Leitch's study, in particular for its diversity and complexity. The author demonstrates that he is familiar with a large and heterogeneous corpus, including canonical as well as popular or marginal films and texts, which adaptation studies can only benefit from.
Thomas Van Parys Image & Narrative 2007 As a cogent summary and critique of film adaptation, this would be a good first book for newcomers to the subject... Highly recommended. Choice 2008 This convincingly argued and eloquently presented volume is replete with an array of accessible examples that provide an illustrative stylistic lightness of touch... whilst resisting any potential dilution of the underlying radical and important thesis-a thesis which incontrovertibly advances and enhances our approach to adaptation studies on a number of highly original and insightful levels.
Dr. Alison Forsyth Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance 2008 Film Adaptation and Its Discontents is a worthy and distinctive entrant into an already crowded field. Its strengths lie in the detailed and persuasively argued collective case histories... as well as its often penetrating and always illuminating discussions of specific problems.
R. Barton Palmer Film Quarterly 2009 For those interested in the cinematic works their favorite books inspire,Thomas Leitch's Film Adaptation and Its Discontents should provide food for thought.
Rebecca Oppenheimer The Jeffersonian 2009 I highly recommend the book both to those new or well versed in adaptation studies as a thought-provoking look at the questions to be asked - and perhaps answered - in this domain of ever-increasing importance.
Shannon Wells-Lassagne Cercles 2010
Thomas Van Parys Image & Narrative 2007 As a cogent summary and critique of film adaptation, this would be a good first book for newcomers to the subject... Highly recommended. Choice 2008 This convincingly argued and eloquently presented volume is replete with an array of accessible examples that provide an illustrative stylistic lightness of touch... whilst resisting any potential dilution of the underlying radical and important thesis-a thesis which incontrovertibly advances and enhances our approach to adaptation studies on a number of highly original and insightful levels.
Dr. Alison Forsyth Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance 2008 Film Adaptation and Its Discontents is a worthy and distinctive entrant into an already crowded field. Its strengths lie in the detailed and persuasively argued collective case histories... as well as its often penetrating and always illuminating discussions of specific problems.
R. Barton Palmer Film Quarterly 2009 For those interested in the cinematic works their favorite books inspire,Thomas Leitch's Film Adaptation and Its Discontents should provide food for thought.
Rebecca Oppenheimer The Jeffersonian 2009 I highly recommend the book both to those new or well versed in adaptation studies as a thought-provoking look at the questions to be asked - and perhaps answered - in this domain of ever-increasing importance.
Shannon Wells-Lassagne Cercles 2010