Screening The Novel

Author : Keith Selby
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349205168
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening The Novel written by Keith Selby and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book takes as its theme the relationship between literature and the contemporary means of production and distribution collectively termed 'the media' - in particular, film and television. The intention of the book is to explore and evaluate the mutual opportunities and restrictions in this relationship. In the grammar of our culture there seems to be an accepted opinion that print is superior in terms of cultural production to film, radio or television, that to read a book is somehow a 'higher' cultural activity than seeing a play on television or seeing a film. By the same token, a novel is a 'superior' work of art to film or television. The longer perspective reveals that traditionally there always is a greater respect paid to the previous mode of literary production - poetry was superior to drama, poetic drama was superior to the novel, and film attained cult and classic status initially over television.

Author : Richard North Patterson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345311396
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Private Screening written by Richard North Patterson and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1986-06-12 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thrilling.... PRIVATE SCREENING succeeds on all counts. It's a footrace of a read, daring you to put it down." ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTION The nation is stunned silent when presidential hopeful James Kilcannon is shot dead in front of his rock-star girlfriend Stacy Tarrant. Fiercely independent attorney Tony Lord dares to defend the shooter, but the already bizarre plot takes another twist. As America watches, a mysterious and ruthless figure, known only as Phoenix, takes to the airwaves-- and takes the wife of a wealthy newspaper mogul and Stacy's manager as his hostages. Phoenix mounts a televised trial of his own--in which Stacy Tarrant and Tony Lord are helpless defendents, millions of viewers are jurors, and--unless his chilling demands are met--Pheonix is the unstoppable executioner....

Author : Gabriel Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474291635
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening the Novel written by Gabriel Miller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most memorable movies of Hollywood's Golden Age were based on novels that never received the acclaim they deserved. No-one who saw Rod Steiger in The Pawnbroker could forget the actor's wrenching performance but does anyone remember the author of the book on which the film was based? The same can be said of Jane Fonda in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Greta Garbo in Susan Lenox, and Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. This book retrieves these novels and re-evaluates the careers of the eight neglected novelists whose works inspired eight different directors – among them Stanley Kubrick, Sidney Lumet, John Huston and Sidney Pollack. Each chapter offers detailed analysis on both the original text and the resulting movie. Taken together, the double examination of novel and film raises some important questions about the nature and problems of cinematic adaptation.

Author : Vivian Carol Sobchack
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813524924
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening Space written by Vivian Carol Sobchack and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text attempts to shape definitions of the American science fiction film, studying the connection between the films and social preconceptions. It covers many classic films and discusses their import, seeking to rescue the genre from the neglect of film theorists. The book should appeal to both film buff and fans of science fiction.

Author : Alan Lightman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101870036
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening Room written by Alan Lightman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • Alan Lightman’s grandfather M.A. was the family’s undisputed patriarch. It was his movie theater empire that catapulted the Lightmans, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant family, to prominence in the South; his triumphs that would both galvanize and paralyze his descendants. In this evocative personal history, the author chronicles his return to Memphis and the stifling home he had been so eager to flee forty years earlier. As aging uncles and aunts retell old stories, Alan finds himself reconsidering long-held beliefs about his larger-than-life grandfather and his quiet, inscrutable father. The result is an unforgettable family saga set against the pulsing backdrop of Memphis—its country clubs and juke joints, its rhythm and blues, its segregated movie theaters, its barbecue and pecan pie—including encounters with Elvis, Martin Luther King Jr., and E. H. “Boss” Crump. Both intensely personal and quintessentially American, Screening Room finely explores the tricks of light that can make—and unmake—a man and his myth. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout.)

Author : Lindsay Anne Hallam
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786488379
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening the Marquis de Sade written by Lindsay Anne Hallam and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their publication, the works of the Marquis de Sade have challenged the reading public with a philosophy of relentless physical transgression. This is the first book-length academic study by a single author that applies the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade to the analysis of a wide array of film texts. By employing Sade's controversial body-oriented philosophy within film analysis, this book provides a new understanding of notions of pain, pleasure, and the representation of the transgressive body in film. Whereas many analyses have used theory to excuse and thus dilute the power of sexual and violent images, the author has here sought to examine cinematic representations of human relations as unflinchingly as Sade did in his novels.

Author : Liora Brosh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230582419
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening Novel Women written by Liora Brosh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-02-14 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Hollywood classics like Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights to the 1990s wave of Jane Austen films, adaptations of the British Nineteenth-century novel have been sensationally popular. This book examines how British and American filmmakers used the domestic novels of the past to construct stable gender ideals for the present.

Author : W.-D. Fessner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540669708
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biocatalysis written by W.-D. Fessner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000-02-14 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, leading contributors from the forefront of this exciting technology present authoritative and timely reviews on the state of the art of biocatalysis. They cover the whole spectrum from the discovery of novel enzymes - by modern screening, evolutionary or immunological approaches - through immobilization techniques for technical processes, to their use in the asymmetric synthesis of important target compounds.

Author : Richard North Patterson
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 149767915X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Private Screening written by Richard North Patterson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A crackerjack thriller” by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Silent Witness: A lawyer defending a Vietnam vet is caught in a kidnapper’s web (Publishers Weekly). All of America is watching when a sniper’s bullet cuts down presidential hopeful James Kilcannon. As the nation rises up in outrage, one lawyer is bold enough to represent the Vietnam veteran accused of firing the fatal shot. Tony Lord has never shied away from a fight, and he will do whatever it takes to get his client a fair trial. A year later, tragedy strikes Kilcannon’s rock-star girlfriend, Stacy Tarrant. Her assistant is kidnapped by a masked terrorist known as Phoenix, who threatens to execute him on live television unless he meets Phoenix’s demands. As Tony helps Stacy through the ordeal, he discovers that Phoenix has connections to the Kilcannon slaying and intends to mount his own televised trial—in which Tony and Stacy are the defendants and Phoenix is the executioner.

Author : Earl G. Ingersoll
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611479711
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening Woolf written by Earl G. Ingersoll and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screening Woolf examines the three film adaptations of her novels To the Lighthouse, Orlando, Mrs. Dalloway; her theorizing about film and its impact on her thinking about fiction; and her central role in the David Hare/Stephen Daldry adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Hours.