Companion to Literature and Film

Robert Stam is University Professor at New York University. His many books include Film Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell, 2000), Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (with Ella Shohat, 1994), and Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism and Film (1989). With Toby Miller, he is the editor of Film and Theory (Blackwell, 2000) and The Blackwell Companion to Film Theory (2000).Alessandra Raengo is finishing her PhD in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University, where she occasionally teaches. Her dissertation explores race and vernacular social criticism in American culture between 1945 and 1968. Among her publications are The Birth of Film Genres (1999) and The Bounds of Representation (2000), both multilingual volumes edited with Leonardo Quaresima and Laura Vichi.

“This volume stands as a model for consolidating studies of film and literature. It demonstrates that this field of intellectual inquiry, as it has developed over the last 15 years, encompasses the highbrow and the low; first and third world subject matter; issues of audience as well as authorship; and a commitment to interdisciplinarity. This collection will be useful for all kinds of readers: scholars, undergraduates, and all those who take seriously the pleasures provided by movies and novels.”Eric Smoodin, University of California at Davis“To anyone believing the discussion of novel-into-film had been exhausted a generation ago, A Companion to Literature and Film will come as a welcome surprise. Each of the twenty-five brilliantly argued case studies shows a level of conceptual clarity and interdisciplinary range that is astonishing. Scholars will find that this book bristles with ideas, while newcomers to the debates have an indispensable and expert guide.”Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam

• List of Illustrations viiiNotes on Contributors ixPreface xivAcknowledgments xvi1 Novels, Films, and the Word/Image Wars 1Kamilla Elliott2 Sacred Word, Profane Image: Theologies of Adaptation 23Ella Shohat3 Gospel Truth? From Cecil B. DeMille to Nicholas Ray 46Pamela Grace4 Transécriture and Narrative Mediatics: The Stakes of Intermediality 58André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion5 The Look: From Film to Novel. An Essay in Comparative Narratology 71François Jost6 Adaptation and Mis-adaptations: Film, Literature, and Social Discourses 81Francesco Casetti7 The Invisible Novelty: Film Adaptations in the 1910s 92Yuri Tsivian8 Italy and America: Pinocchio’s First Cinematic Trip 112Raffaele De Berti9 The Intertextuality of Early Cinema: A Prologue to Fantômas 127Tom Gunning10 Cosmopolitan Projections: World Literature on Chinese Screens 144Zhang Zhen11 The Rhetoric of Interruption 164Allen S. Weiss12 Visualizing the Voice: Joyce, Cinema, and the Politics of Vision 171Luke Gibbons13 Adapting Cinema to History: A Revolution in the Making 189Dudley Andrew14 Photographic Verismo, Cinematic Adaptation, and the Staging of a Neorealist Landscape 205Noa Steimatsky15 The Devil’s Parody: Horace McCoy’s Appropriation and Refiguration of Two Hollywood Musicals 229Charles Musser16 The Sociological Turn of Adaptation Studies: The Example of Film Noir 258R. Barton Palmer17 Adapting Farewell, My Lovely 278William Luhr18 Daphne du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock 298Richard Allen19 Running Time: The Chronotope of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 326Peter Hitchcock20 From Libertinage to Eric Rohmer: Transcending “Adaptation” 343Maria Tortajada21 The Moment of Portraiture: Scorsese Reads Wharton 358Brigitte Peucker22 The Talented Poststructuralist: Hetero-masculinity, Gay Artifice, and Class Passing 368Chris Straayer23 From Bram Stoker’s Dracula to Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” 385Margaret Montalbano24 The Bible as Cultural Object(s) in Cinema 399Gavriel Moses25 All’s Wells that Ends Wells: Apocalypse and Empire in The War of the Worlds 423Julian CornellIndex 448