Film and Literature

Timothy Corrigan is Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His work in Cinema Studies has focused on modern American and contemporary international cinema. His books include New German Film: The Displaced Image, The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History, Writing about Film, A Cinema without Walls: Movies and Culture after Vietnam and The Essay Film: From Montaigne, After Marker. He is the editor of the journal Adaptation.

Striking the perfect balance between text and context, Corrigan’s volumes proves a wonderful tool for students as well as teachers. Jan Baetens, Leuven Uni, BelgiumCorrigan’s Film and Literature offers an accessible history of the contentious intellectual relationship between literature and film as well as the often symbiotic history of their industrial relations. The selected readings cover an excellent range of influential, as well as cutting-edge, approaches to the area of study, and the concluding guide to writing about Film and Literature is a welcome addition. Dr. Shelley Cobb, Southampton, UKThis text offers ‘the complete package’—containing history, theory, and praxis—for professors teaching courses in this growing field. Without a doubt, this will be the book I use for film and literature courses in the years to come.Dr. Melissa Croteau, California Baptist University, USAThe Corrigan book admirably fulfills its roles as an overview on the subject and as an anthology of theoretical positions and critical approaches. James Goodwin, University of California, USACorrigan’s lucid introduction to the phases of early cinema in respect of the intrinsic but often under-appreciated interface between literary and filmic forms of expression offers a concise, lucid and authoritative account of its genealogy and development.Mike Ingham, Lingnan University, H.K.

• Part I: Film and Literature in the Crosscurrents of History 1. The Prehistory of Film and Literature 2. Filming Literature: From Early Cinema to Classical Form, 1895-1925 3. Testing and Expanding the Value of Film and Literature, 1915-1940 4. Pens, Pulp, and the Crisis of the Word, 1940-1960 5. Academic Cinema and International Spectacles, 1960-1980 6. Books and Movies as Multimedia, 1990 to the Present Part 2: Documents and Debates 1. Adaptation Studies 2. Adaptation in History 3. Authors and Auteurs 4. Novels, Theater, Poetry, and Non-Fiction 5. Major Writers/Major Films: On William Shakespeare’s MacBeth and Jane Austen’s Emma 6. Beyond Film and Literary Texts Part 3: Writing about Film and Literature 1. Themes, Strategies, and Elements of Style 2. Genres and Other Topics 3. Writing about Film and Literature