Campanion to literature and film

Contents
List of Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xiv
Acknowledgments xvi
1 Novels, Films, and the Word/Image Wars 1
Kamilla Elliott
2 Sacred Word, Profane Image: Theologies of Adaptation 23
Ella Shohat
3 Gospel Truth? From Cecil B. DeMille to Nicholas Ray 46
Pamela Grace
4 Transécriture and Narrative Mediatics: The Stakes of Intermediality 58
André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion
5 The Look: From Film to Novel. An Essay in Comparative Narratology 71
François Jost
6 Adaptation and Mis-adaptations: Film, Literature, and Social Discourses 81
Francesco Casetti
7 The Invisible Novelty: Film Adaptations in the 1910s 92
Yuri Tsivian
8 Italy and America: Pinocchio’s First Cinematic Trip 112
Raffaele De Berti
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9 The Intertextuality of Early Cinema: A Prologue to Fantômas 127
Tom Gunning
10 Cosmopolitan Projections: World Literature on Chinese Screens 144
Zhang Zhen
11 The Rhetoric of Interruption 164
Allen S. Weiss
12 Visualizing the Voice: Joyce, Cinema, and the Politics of Vision 171
Luke Gibbons
13 Adapting Cinema to History: A Revolution in the Making 189
Dudley Andrew
14 Photographic Verismo, Cinematic Adaptation, and the Staging of
a Neorealist Landscape 205
Noa Steimatsky
15 The Devil’s Parody: Horace McCoy’s Appropriation and Refiguration
of Two Hollywood Musicals 229
Charles Musser
16 The Sociological Turn of Adaptation Studies: The Example of Film Noir 258
R. Barton Palmer
17 Adapting Farewell, My Lovely 278
William Luhr
18 Daphne du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock 298
Richard Allen
19 Running Time: The Chronotope of The Loneliness of the Long
Distance Runner 326
Peter Hitchcock
20 From Libertinage to Eric Rohmer: Transcending “Adaptation” 343
Maria Tortajada
21 The Moment of Portraiture: Scorsese Reads Wharton 358
Brigitte Peucker
22 The Talented Poststructuralist: Hetero-masculinity, Gay Artifice,
and Class Passing 368
Chris Straayer
23 From Bram Stoker’s Draculato Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” 385
Margaret Montalbano
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24 The Bible as Cultural Object(s) in Cinema 399
Gavriel Moses
25 All’s Wells that Ends Wells: Apocalypse and Empire inThe War of
the Worlds 423
Julian Cornell
Index 448