Film Phenomenology and Adaptation

David Evan Richard is a Lecturer in Media at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. He has published articles and essays on film and television aesthetics and experience, adaptation, and philosophy in Adaptation, NECSUS, and Senses of Cinema.

• Acknowledgements, List of Figures, Introduction. A 'Fleshly Dialogue', If Only You Could See What I've Seen with Your Eyes, Fuzzy and Sticky: The Stigma of Subjective Impressionism in Adaptation Studies, Beyond 'Intertextual Dialogism': Phenomenology, Film, and a 'Fleshly Dialogue', Corpus, Works Cited, Chapter One. Grave Visions: Visual Experience and Adaptation, Introduction: Eye-Opener, Visible and Visible: The 'Carnal Density of Vision', Early Cinema Aesthetics as an Attractive Possibility for Screen Adaptation, Draped in Shadow: Murnau's Nosferatu, Glittering Night: Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, Conclusion: Out of Sight, Works Cited, Chapter Two. Resonance and Reverberation: Sounding Out Screen Adaptation, Prelude, Acoustic Shape and the Sonic Wizardry of Screen Sound, Listening to the Voice's 'Acoustic, Sensuous Impression', Heart of Glass: Rendering the Sounds of Depression in The Hours, Alienated Language: Under the Skin, Final Note, Works Cited, Chapter Three. Textural Analysis: Touching Adaptation, Introduction: Scratching the Surface, Skin and Bone: Fleshing Out Tactile Experience in Film Theory, 'Thumbprints' and an 'Irritating' Performance: In the Cut's 'Tactile Orientation', A Touching Sight: Embodied Voyeurism, Conclusion: Final Touch, Works Cited, Chapter Four. Textures of Imagination, Introduction: From Sight to Insight, Wonder, at the Limits of Adaptation Studies, Wonder, Make-Believe, and Simulation: Cognitive Approaches to Imagination, Embodied Imagination and Intercorporeality: Mind the ('Epistemic') Gap!, Inside-Out and Upside-Down: Mood Indigo's Existential Feelings, A Cute Grief: Feeling Blue in Mood Indigo, Conclusion: From Percept to Precept, Works Cited, Chapter Five. (Re-)Mediating Memory's Materiality, Introduction: Tracing Memory's Role in Adaptation, Untangling the 'Thick' Tissue of Memory, Textu(r)al Traces: Memory in Literature and Film, Straight-Laced: The Danish Girl, in Transition, Poison's 'Ambivalent Aesthetic' of Memory, Conclusion: The 'Pressure of the Past', Pushing Towards the Future, Works Cited, Conclusion. Body Language, Arriving at an Embodied Theory of Adaptation, Departures: Towards an 'Ethics of Adaptation', Works Cited, Bibliography, Filmography, Index.