Classics in Film and Fiction

Classics in Film and Fiction
Author: Deborah Cartmell
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2000-03-20
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

Evaluates the term 'classic', discussing a wide range of films and texts including Jane Eyre, The Tempest and Alice in Wonderland.

Science Fiction Gold

Science Fiction Gold
Author: Dennis Saleh
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1979
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

The best in classic 50s science fiction film, a definitive survey of fourteen great movies-each with a lavish photo essay, detailed commentary, and complete credits.

Nineteenth-century Women at the Movies

Nineteenth-century Women at the Movies
Author: Barbara Tepa Lupack
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780879728052

Eleven essays analyze the adaptations of novels by eight popular writers such as Jane Austen and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and examine the ways in which those writers' themes are reinterpreted, updated and often misconstrued by the filmmakers who bring them to the screen. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

From Page To Screen

From Page To Screen
Author: Erica Sheen
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2000-05-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780719052316

This book critically examines the long established tradition of adapting classic novels to film or TV screen, encompassing novelists from Jane Austen to Michael Ondaatje. The early cinema ransacked literature for stories suitable for retelling in moving pictures, and as the art of the cinema matured, and cinematography, music, special effects and sound were improved, the art of dramatization began to produce high quality versions of respected novels. The authors in this book analyze a wide variety of literary dramatizations.

Lilac Girls

Lilac Girls
Author: Martha Hall Kelly
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2016-04-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101883065

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One million copies sold! Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this remarkable debut novel reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom, and second chances. “Extremely moving and memorable . . . This impressive debut should appeal strongly to historical fiction readers and to book clubs that adored Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale and Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See.”—Library Journal (starred review) New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline’s world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Poland in September 1939—and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement. In a tense atmosphere of watchful eyes and suspecting neighbors, one false move can have dire consequences. For the ambitious young German doctor, Herta Oberheuser, an ad for a government medical position seems her ticket out of a desolate life. Once hired, though, she finds herself trapped in a male-dominated realm of Nazi secrets and power. The lives of these three women are set on a collision course when the unthinkable happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women. Their stories cross continents—from New York to Paris, Germany, and Poland—as Caroline and Kasia strive to bring justice to those whom history has forgotten. USA Today “New and Noteworthy” Book • LibraryReads Top Ten Pick

Science-fiction Classics

Science-fiction Classics
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Science fiction
ISBN: 9781575000404

A collection of thirteen short stories and two novels from classic science fiction which became films.

The Novel and the Cinema

The Novel and the Cinema
Author: Geoffrey Atheling Wagner
Publisher: Rutherford : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : The Tantivy Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1975
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

The author compares film and the novel, and provides a greater understanding and enjoyment of those forms.

Weimar Cinema

Weimar Cinema
Author: Noah William Isenberg
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 0231130554

In this comprehensive companion to Weimar cinema, chapters address the technological advancements of each film, their production and place within the larger history of German cinema, the style of the director, the actors and the rise of the German star, and the critical reception of the film.