A Companion to Literature and Film

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Description

A Companion to Literature in Film provides state-of-the-art research on world literature, film, and the complex theoretical relationship between them. 25 essays by international experts cover the most important topics in the study of literature and film adaptations.

Covers a wide variety of topics, including cultural, thematic, theoretical, and genre issues
Discusses film adaptations from the birth of cinema to the present day
Explores a diverse range of titles and genres, including film noir, biblical epics, and Italian and Chinese cinema

About the Author

Robert Stam is University Professor at New York University. His many books include Film Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell, 2000), Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (with Ella Shohat, 1994), and Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism and Film (1989). With Toby Miller, he is the editor of Film and Theory (Blackwell, 2000) and The Blackwell Companion to Film Theory (2000).

Alessandra Raengo is finishing her PhD in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University, where she occasionally teaches. Her dissertation explores race and vernacular social criticism in American culture between 1945 and 1968. Among her publications are The Birth of Film Genres (1999) and The Bounds of Representation (2000), both multilingual volumes edited with Leonardo Quaresima and Laura Vichi.

Features

Now available in paperback, this companion brings together state-of-the-art research on world literature, film, and the complex theoretical relationship between them
Includes 25 original essays by international experts, combining theory with sophisticated readings of novels and adaptations
Covers a wide variety of topics, including cultural, thematic, theoretical, and genre issues
Discusses film adaptations from the birth of cinema to the present day
Explores a diverse range of titles and genres, including film noir, biblical epics, and Italian and Chinese cinema

Series

Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies

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