Film and literature: an introduction and reader / The Routledge new edition of this classic book functions as an accessible introduction to the historical and theoretical exchanges between film and literature and also includes the key critical readings necessary for an understanding of this increasingly vibrant and popular field of adaption studies. Bibliographic Details Other Authors: Format: Book Language: English Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2012.

Edition: 2nd ed. Table of Contents: • PART 1: Film and literature in the crosscurrents of history. The prehistory of film and literature • Filming literature: from early film and literature to classical form, 1895-1925 • Testing and expanding the value of film and literature, 1915-1940 • Pens, pulp, and the crisis of the word, 1940-1960 • Academic cinema and international spectacles, 1960-1980 • Books and movies as multimedia: into the new millennium • PART 2: Major documents and debates. 2.1 Adaptation studies.

Keywords critique fidelity film adaptation ideology interpretation intertextuality reception translation. Beyond fidelity: the dialogics of adaptation. Beyond fidelity. Beyond fidelity: the dialogics of adaptation. Stam, Robert (2000) `'Beyond Fidelity: The Dialogics of Adaptation ', in James Naremore (ed.) Film Adaptation, pp. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Google Scholar.

Adaptation, or the cinema as digest / André Basin • Adaptation / Dudley Andrew • Beyond fidelity: the dialogics of adaptation / Robert Stam • Adaptation, translation, critique / Lawrence Venuti • Twelve fallacies in contemporary adaptation theory / Thomas Leich • 2.2 Adaptation in history. Progress and endowment / Vachel Lindsay • Novel, short story, drama: the conditions for influence / Kristin Thompson • The means of photoplay / Hugo Münsterberg • Dickens, Griffith, and the film today / Sergei Eisenstein • The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility / Walter Benjamin • Literary forces encouraging the use of black writers / Mark A. Reid • Literature on the small screen: television adaptations / Sarah Cardwell • 2.3 Authors and auteurs. The birth of a new avant-garde: la caméra-stylo / Alexandre Astruc • The auteur theory / Peter Wollen • The screenplay and authorship in adaptation / Jack Boozer • 2.4 Novels, theater, poetry, and non-fiction. Theater and cinema / André Bazin • Acting: stage vs.

Screen / Leo Braudy • The limits of the novel and the limits of the film / George Bluestone • Readership and spectatorship / Judith Mayne • The lyrical film / P. Adams Sitney • The essay film: on thoughts occasioned. Michel De Montaigne and Chris Marker / Timothy Corrigan • 2.5 Major writers / major films: on William Shakespeare's Macbeth and Jane Austen's Emma. 'When every noise appals me': sound and fear in Macbeth and Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood / Evelyn Tribble • Out damned Scot: dislocating Macbeth in transnational film and media culture / Courtney Lehmann • Emma, interrupted: speaking Jane Austen in fiction and film / Hilary Schor • Adapting Jane Austen: the surprising fidelity of Clueless / William Galperin • 2.6 Beyond film and literary texts. Materializing adaptation theory: the adaptation industry / Simone Murray • 'How? (audiences)' / Linda Hutcheon • Searching for the origami: The Matrix and transmedia storytelling / Henry Jenkins • PART 3: Writing about film and literature: critical terms, borders, and strategies.