Literature Through Film: Realism, Magic, and the Art of Adaptation

by Robert Stam

Book Overview

This lively and accessible textbook, written by an expert in film studies, provides a fascinating introduction to the process and art of literature-to-film adaptations. Provides a lively, rigorous, and clearly written account of key moments in the history of the novel from Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe up to Lolita and One Hundred Years of Solitude Includes diversity of topics and titles, such as Fielding, Nabokov, and Cervantes in adaptations by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405102888
• ISBN13: 9781405102889
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.0"