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- catalog abstract ""We should avoid making films out of books," argued Ingmar Bergman. Fortunately, few filmmakers have heeded his counsel. From Edwin S. Porter to Mike Nichols, from D.W. Griffith to Steven Spielberg, American filmmakers in particular have routinely looked to literature and especially to the novel for story ideas; and, in adapting that material for the screen, they have often interpreted it in ways other than the original authors might have intended. Different in its complexities from the classic novels of Dickens, London and Tolstoy to which earlier filmmakers turned, the contemporary American novel, especially the novel that has achieved a kind of cult status, poses a real challenge to the contemporary filmmaker, who must translate its occasionally unfilmable essence for a new audience. Take Two closely analyzes the adaptations of ten such works: Catch-22, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Slaughterhouse-Five, Being There, The World According to Garp, Sophie's Choice, The Color Purple, Ironweed, Tough Guys Don't Dance, and Billy Bathgate. The essays, whose authors include some of the foremost scholars of contemporary American literature and film, offer critical insights into the visions of both the novelist and the filmmaker as well as important discussions of how those visions converge and diverge. The essays thus contribute not only to an understanding of the relationship of any given film to the book which inspired it but also to the lively and continuing debate on the very nature and merits of adaptation itself.".
- catalog alternative "Adapting the contemporary American novel to film.".
- catalog contributor b8644553.
- catalog contributor b8644554.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description ""We should avoid making films out of books," argued Ingmar Bergman. Fortunately, few filmmakers have heeded his counsel. From Edwin S. Porter to Mike Nichols, from D.W. Griffith to Steven Spielberg, American filmmakers in particular have routinely looked to literature and especially to the novel for story ideas; and, in adapting that material for the screen, they have often interpreted it in ways other than the original authors might have intended.".
- catalog description "Different in its complexities from the classic novels of Dickens, London and Tolstoy to which earlier filmmakers turned, the contemporary American novel, especially the novel that has achieved a kind of cult status, poses a real challenge to the contemporary filmmaker, who must translate its occasionally unfilmable essence for a new audience.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "On adapting the contemporary American novel / Barbara Tepa Lupack -- The waking nightmare of Mike Nichols' Catch-22 / Robert Merrill and John L. Simons -- One flew, two followed : stage and screen adaptations of Cuckoo's nest / Barry H. Leeds -- Slaughterhouse-five : fiction into film / Jerome Klinkowitz -- Chance encounters : bringing Being there to the screen / Barbara Tepa Lupack -- The world according to Garp : novel to film / Bruce Bawer -- Sophie's choice, Pakula's choices / Barbara Tepa Lupack -- Adapting The color purple : when folk goes pop / John Peacock -- Ironweed and the snows of reduction / Benedict Giamo -- Tough guy goes Hollywood : Mailer and the movies / Barry H. Leeds -- Doctorow's Billy Bathgate : compelling postmodern novel, retro-realist film / Michael Bruce McDonald.".
- catalog description "Take Two closely analyzes the adaptations of ten such works: Catch-22, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Slaughterhouse-Five, Being There, The World According to Garp, Sophie's Choice, The Color Purple, Ironweed, Tough Guys Don't Dance, and Billy Bathgate.".
- catalog description "The essays, whose authors include some of the foremost scholars of contemporary American literature and film, offer critical insights into the visions of both the novelist and the filmmaker as well as important discussions of how those visions converge and diverge. The essays thus contribute not only to an understanding of the relationship of any given film to the book which inspired it but also to the lively and continuing debate on the very nature and merits of adaptation itself.".
- catalog extent "191 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Take two.".
- catalog identifier "0879726415 (bound)".
- catalog identifier "0879726423 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Take two.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press,".
- catalog relation "Take two.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "813/.5409 20".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century Film adaptations.".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century Film and video adaptations.".
- catalog subject "Motion pictures and literature United States.".
- catalog subject "PS374.M55 T35 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "On adapting the contemporary American novel / Barbara Tepa Lupack -- The waking nightmare of Mike Nichols' Catch-22 / Robert Merrill and John L. Simons -- One flew, two followed : stage and screen adaptations of Cuckoo's nest / Barry H. Leeds -- Slaughterhouse-five : fiction into film / Jerome Klinkowitz -- Chance encounters : bringing Being there to the screen / Barbara Tepa Lupack -- The world according to Garp : novel to film / Bruce Bawer -- Sophie's choice, Pakula's choices / Barbara Tepa Lupack -- Adapting The color purple : when folk goes pop / John Peacock -- Ironweed and the snows of reduction / Benedict Giamo -- Tough guy goes Hollywood : Mailer and the movies / Barry H. Leeds -- Doctorow's Billy Bathgate : compelling postmodern novel, retro-realist film / Michael Bruce McDonald.".
- catalog title "Adapting the contemporary American novel to film.".
- catalog title "Take two : adapting the contemporary American novel to film / edited by Barbara Tepa Lupack.".
- catalog type "Film adaptations. fast".
- catalog type "text".