Vision/Re-Vision: Adapting Contemporary American Fiction To Film

by Barbara Tepa Lupack

The essays in Vision/Re-Vision analyze in detail ten popular and important films adapted from contemporary American fiction by women, addressing the ways in which the writers' latent or overt feminist messages are reinterpreted by the filmmakers who bring them to the screen, demonstrating that there is much to praise as well as much to fault in the adaptations and that the process of adaptation itself is instructive rather than destructive,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879727144
• ISBN13: 9780879727147
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"