Colin MacCabe is Distinguished Professor of English and Film, University of Pittsburgh and Professor of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the editor of Critical Quarterly and the author of several books, including The Butcher Boy (2007), T.S. Eliot (2006), Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy (2003), The Eloquence of the Vulgar (1998) and James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word (1978, second ed. 2002). He has produced or executive produced more than 10 feature films and more than 30 hours of television documentaries on the history of the cinema (for the British Film Institute and Minerva Pictures).Kathleen Murray is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her M.A. in Media Studies from New School University in 2003.Rick Warner is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of articles on New Taiwan Cinema, relations between "old" and "new" media, the films of Chris Marker, and the video projects of Jean-Luc Godard.

It is not too much to say that this book is simply ground-breaking, easily and by far the best book on this important subject, and one that should be required reading of all film and literature students.

• PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; BAZINIAN ADAPTATION: THE BUTCHER BOY AS EXAMPLE; COLIN MACCABE; DUDLEY ANDREW; HAUPTMANN'S ATLANTIS IN 1913; TOM GUNNING; JAMES NAREMORE; LAURA MULVEY; KATHLEEN MURRAY; THE VIRGIN SUICIDES; STEPHANIE MCKNIGHT; SHELAGH PATTERSON; JONATHAN LOUCKS; LAWRENCE OF ARABIA; ALISON PATTERSON; JARRELL D. WRIGHT; RICK WARNER; AFTERWORD; ADAPTATION AS A PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM; FREDRIC JAMESON; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Colin MacCabe is Distinguished Professor of English and Film, University of Pittsburgh and Professor of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the editor of Critical Quarterly and the author of several books, including The Butcher Boy (2007), T.S. Eliot (2006), Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy (2003), The Eloquence of the Vulgar (1998) and James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word (1978, second ed. 2002). He has produced or executive produced more than 10 feature films and more than 30 hours of television documentaries on the history of the cinema (for the British Film Institute and Minerva Pictures).Kathleen Murray is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her M.A. in Media Studies from New School University in 2003.Rick Warner is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of articles on New Taiwan Cinema, relations between "old" and "new" media, the films of Chris Marker, and the video projects of Jean-Luc Godard.

It is not too much to say that this book is simply ground-breaking, easily and by far the best book on this important subject, and one that should be required reading of all film and literature students.

• PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; BAZINIAN ADAPTATION: THE BUTCHER BOY AS EXAMPLE; COLIN MACCABE; DUDLEY ANDREW; HAUPTMANN'S ATLANTIS IN 1913; TOM GUNNING; JAMES NAREMORE; LAURA MULVEY; KATHLEEN MURRAY; THE VIRGIN SUICIDES; STEPHANIE MCKNIGHT; SHELAGH PATTERSON; JONATHAN LOUCKS; LAWRENCE OF ARABIA; ALISON PATTERSON; JARRELL D. WRIGHT; RICK WARNER; AFTERWORD; ADAPTATION AS A PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM; FREDRIC JAMESON; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Colin MacCabe is Distinguished Professor of English and Film, University of Pittsburgh and Professor of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the editor of Critical Quarterly and the author of several books, including The Butcher Boy (2007), T.S. Eliot (2006), Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy (2003), The Eloquence of the Vulgar (1998) and James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word (1978, second ed. 2002). He has produced or executive produced more than 10 feature films and more than 30 hours of television documentaries on the history of the cinema (for the British Film Institute and Minerva Pictures).Kathleen Murray is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her M.A. in Media Studies from New School University in 2003.Rick Warner is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of articles on New Taiwan Cinema, relations between "old" and "new" media, the films of Chris Marker, and the video projects of Jean-Luc Godard.

It is not too much to say that this book is simply ground-breaking, easily and by far the best book on this important subject, and one that should be required reading of all film and literature students.

• PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; BAZINIAN ADAPTATION: THE BUTCHER BOY AS EXAMPLE; COLIN MACCABE; DUDLEY ANDREW; HAUPTMANN'S ATLANTIS IN 1913; TOM GUNNING; JAMES NAREMORE; LAURA MULVEY; KATHLEEN MURRAY; THE VIRGIN SUICIDES; STEPHANIE MCKNIGHT; SHELAGH PATTERSON; JONATHAN LOUCKS; LAWRENCE OF ARABIA; ALISON PATTERSON; JARRELL D. WRIGHT; RICK WARNER; AFTERWORD; ADAPTATION AS A PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM; FREDRIC JAMESON; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX