Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to the Passion of the Christ

by Thomas Leitch

Book Overview

Most books on film adaptation--the relation between films and their literary sources--focus on a series of close one-to-one comparisons between specific films and canonical novels. This volume identifies and investigates a far wider array of problems posed by the process of adaptation.

Beginning with an examination of why adaptation study has so often supported the institution of literature rather than fostering the practice of literacy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801892716
• ISBN13: 9780801892714
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher