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Nineteenth-century American fiction on screen / edited by R. Barton Palmer.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007Description: xiii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780521842211 (hbk.)
  • 0521842212 (hbk.)
  • 9780521603164 (pbk.)
  • 0521603161 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.436 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997.85 .N54 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / R. Barton Palmer -- A very American fable: the making of a Mohicans adaptation / Martin Barker and Roger Sabin -- Romancing the letter: screening a Hawthorne classic / Michael Dunne -- The movies in the Rue Morgue: adapting Edgar Allan Poe for the screen / Paul Woolf -- Readapting Uncle Tom's Cabin / Stephen Railton -- Screening authorship: Little Women on screen 1933-1994 / Deborah Cartmell and Judy Simons -- Melville's Moby Dick and Hollywood / David Lavery -- Screening male sentimental power in Ben-Hur / Marcia L. Pentz-Harris, Linda Seger, and R. Barton Palmer -- John Huston's The red badge of courage / Jakob Lothe -- Translating Daisy Miller / Douglas McFArland -- Jane Campion's The portrait of a lady / Harriet Margolis and Janet Hughes -- The Europeans-and the Americans / Brian McFarlane -- Sister Carrie becomes Carrie / Stephen C. Brennan -- Hollywood and The sea-wolf / Tony Williams -- An untypical typicality: screening Owen Wister's The Virginian / R. Barton Palmer.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PN1997.85 .N54 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001015162

Includes filmography: pages 246-253.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / R. Barton Palmer -- A very American fable: the making of a Mohicans adaptation / Martin Barker and Roger Sabin -- Romancing the letter: screening a Hawthorne classic / Michael Dunne -- The movies in the Rue Morgue: adapting Edgar Allan Poe for the screen / Paul Woolf -- Readapting Uncle Tom's Cabin / Stephen Railton -- Screening authorship: Little Women on screen 1933-1994 / Deborah Cartmell and Judy Simons -- Melville's Moby Dick and Hollywood / David Lavery -- Screening male sentimental power in Ben-Hur / Marcia L. Pentz-Harris, Linda Seger, and R. Barton Palmer -- John Huston's The red badge of courage / Jakob Lothe -- Translating Daisy Miller / Douglas McFArland -- Jane Campion's The portrait of a lady / Harriet Margolis and Janet Hughes -- The Europeans-and the Americans / Brian McFarlane -- Sister Carrie becomes Carrie / Stephen C. Brennan -- Hollywood and The sea-wolf / Tony Williams -- An untypical typicality: screening Owen Wister's The Virginian / R. Barton Palmer.

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