Screen Adaptation : Impure Cinema (Paperback)

Introduction.- Adaptations: Theories, Interpretations and the New Dilemmas.- Film on Literature: Film as the New Shakespeare.- Literature on Film: Writers on Adaptations in the Early Twentieth Century.- Authorial Suicide: Adaptation as Appropriation in Peter Pan.- Beyond Fidelity: Transtextual Approaches.- Generic Adaptations: Genre, Hollywood, Shakespeare, Austen.- A Simple Twist? The Gentrification of Nineteenth Century Fiction.- Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Letters on Screen.- Conclusion: Impure Cinema Another Apology for Adaptations.- Bibliography.- Filmography.