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Adapting Henry James to the Screen
Laurence Raw
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Description for Adapting Henry James to the Screen
Paperback. Raw shows how changing priorities have affected the ways in which Henry James's novels have been translated to the screen, looking at everything from The Turn of the Screw and The Portrait of a Lady to The Wings of the Dove and The Haunting of Hell House. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: WZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 508.
One of Henry James's main achievements as a novelist was his ability to demonstrate how the notions of "masculinity" and "femininity" are socially constructed, depending on a variety of contradictory factors: social, political, sexual, and economic. His unique capacity to understand the ideological function of relationships often accepted as "natural" in late nineteenth century culture resulted in works of fiction that impress upon readers the oppressiveness inherent within them. Most adaptations of literary classics, however, tend to be influenced by Hollywood conventions that tend to reinforce dominant notions of gender and heterosexual relations. Adapting a novel for cinema or television ... Read more
One of Henry James's main achievements as a novelist was his ability to demonstrate how the notions of "masculinity" and "femininity" are socially constructed, depending on a variety of contradictory factors: social, political, sexual, and economic. His unique capacity to understand the ideological function of relationships often accepted as "natural" in late nineteenth century culture resulted in works of fiction that impress upon readers the oppressiveness inherent within them. Most adaptations of literary classics, however, tend to be influenced by Hollywood conventions that tend to reinforce dominant notions of gender and heterosexual relations. Adapting a novel for cinema or television ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810857070
SKU
V9780810857070
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About Laurence Raw
Laurence Raw is Senior Lecturer, Department of American Culture and Literature, Baskent University, Turkey. He is the author of Changing Class Attitudes (1994) and The Country and the City (1997).
Reviews for Adapting Henry James to the Screen
An extensive bibliography and index round out this scholarly, in-depth literary and cultural analysis of the tenuous media transition of immortal stories.
Wisconsin Bookwatch, January 2007
Raw's analyses are lucid, plausible, and informed by a range of theorists....Recommended.
CHOICE, June 2007
James fans will appreciate Raw's efforts in this book and find it useful in introducing ... Read more
Wisconsin Bookwatch, January 2007
Raw's analyses are lucid, plausible, and informed by a range of theorists....Recommended.
CHOICE, June 2007
James fans will appreciate Raw's efforts in this book and find it useful in introducing ... Read more