From Fidelity to History

Film Adaptations as Cultural Events in the Twentieth Century
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-85745-731-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 504 g

Reihe: Transatlantic Perspectives

Scholarly approaches to the relationship between literature and film, ranging from the traditional focus upon fidelity to more recent issues of intertextuality, all contain a significant blind spot: a lack of theoretical and methodological attention to adaptation as an historical and transnational phenomenon. This book argues for a historically informed approach to American popular culture that reconfigures the classically defined adaptation phenomenon as a form of transnational reception. Focusing on several case studies— including the films Sense and Sensibility (1995) and The Portrait of a Lady (1997), and the classics The Third Man (1949) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)—the author demonstrates the ways adapted literary works function as social and cultural events in history and how these become important sites of cultural negotiation and struggle.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scholz, Anne-Marie

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Adaptation as Reception: How Film Historians Can Contribute to the ‘Literature to Film’ Debates

Part I: Post Cold War Readings of the Receptions of Anglo-American Hollywood Adaptations in Cold War West Germany: 1950-1963

Chapter 1. “Eine Revolution des Films”: The Third Man (1949), The Cold War, and Alternatives to Nationalism and ‘Coca-colonization’ in Europe

Chapter 2. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Revisited: Combat Cinema, American Culture and the German Past

Chapter 3. “Josef K von 1963”: Orson Welles’ ‘Americanized’ Version of the The Trial and the Changing Functions of the ‘Kafkaesque’ in Cold War West Germany

Part II: Postfeminist Relations between ‘Classic’ Texts and Hollywood Film Adaptations in the United States in the 1990s: Introduction

Chapter 4. “Jane-Mania”: The Jane Austen Film Boom in the 1990s

Chapter 5. Thelma and Sense and Louise and Sensibility: Challenging Dichotomies in Women’s History Through Film and Literature

Chapter 6. “Jamesian Proportions”: The Henry James Film Boom in the 1990s

Conclusion: A Case for the ‘Case Study’: The Future of Adaptation Studies as a Branch of Transnational Film History

Appendix I: Mediating Apparent and Latent Content (Tables 1 & 2)

Appendix II: Model of Adaptation as a Process of Reception

Archival Collections Consulted

Filmography

Primary Literary Works

Selected Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Scholz, Anne-Marie
Anne-Marie Scholz holds a teaching affiliation with the University of Bremen, Germany and is currently an Adjunct Professor of American Studies at the University of Konstanz. She is also a freelance language teacher and translator. She has published in The European Journal of American Studies, Film and History, Amerikastudien/American Studies, and German History and has taught at the Universities of Bonn, Hamburg, Tübingen, Bremen, and the University of California, Irvine.

Anne-Marie Scholz holds a teaching affiliation with the University of Bremen, Germany and is currently an Adjunct Professor of American Studies at the University of Konstanz. She is also a freelance language teacher and translator. She has published in The European Journal of American Studies, Film and History, Amerikastudien/American Studies, and German History and has taught at the Universities of Bonn, Hamburg, Tübingen, Bremen, and the University of California, Irvine.