JAMES NAREMORE is Chancellors' Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. He has edited North by Northwest (Rutgers University Press), and is the author of The Magic World of Orson Welles, Acting in the Cinema, and More than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts.

"Naremore's provocative collection breaks new ground in both theoretical and practical studies. . . . The work of informed, thoughtful writers, virtually all the essays are useful reading; combined they convey the crucial, indeed central, importance of adaptation as a critical theoretical category in film studies. Recommended for all collections." (Choice) "Naremore's provocative collection breaks new ground in both theoretical and practical studies. . . . The work of informed, thoughtful writers, virtually all the essays are useful reading; combined they convey the crucial, indeed central, importance of adaptation as a critical theoretical category in film studies. Recommended for all collections." (Choice)

JAMES NAREMORE is Chancellors' Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. He has edited North by Northwest (Rutgers University Press), and is the author of The Magic World of Orson Welles, Acting in the Cinema, and More than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts.

"Naremore's provocative collection breaks new ground in both theoretical and practical studies. . . . The work of informed, thoughtful writers, virtually all the essays are useful reading; combined they convey the crucial, indeed central, importance of adaptation as a critical theoretical category in film studies. Recommended for all collections." (Choice) "Naremore's provocative collection breaks new ground in both theoretical and practical studies. . . . The work of informed, thoughtful writers, virtually all the essays are useful reading; combined they convey the crucial, indeed central, importance of adaptation as a critical theoretical category in film studies. Recommended for all collections." (Choice)

JAMES NAREMORE is Chancellors' Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. He has edited North by Northwest (Rutgers University Press), and is the author of The Magic World of Orson Welles, Acting in the Cinema, and More than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts.

"Naremore's provocative collection breaks new ground in both theoretical and practical studies. . . . The work of informed, thoughtful writers, virtually all the essays are useful reading; combined they convey the crucial, indeed central, importance of adaptation as a critical theoretical category in film studies. Recommended for all collections." (Choice) "Naremore's provocative collection breaks new ground in both theoretical and practical studies. . . . The work of informed, thoughtful writers, virtually all the essays are useful reading; combined they convey the crucial, indeed central, importance of adaptation as a critical theoretical category in film studies. Recommended for all collections." (Choice)