Eighteenth-Century Fiction on ScreenRobert Mayer Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen offers an extensive introduction to cinematic representations of the eighteenth century, mostly derived from classic fiction of that period, and sheds light on the process of making prose fiction into film. The contributors provide a variety of theoretical and critical approaches to the process of bringing literary works to the screen. They consider a broad range of film and television adaptations, including several versions of Robinson Crusoe; three films of Moll Flanders; American, British, and French television adaptations of Gulliver's Travels, Clarissa, Tom Jones, and Jacques le fataliste; Wim Wender's film version of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprentice Years; the controversial film of Diderot's La Religieuese; and French and Anglo-American motion pictures based on Les Liaisons dangereuses among others. This book will appeal to students and scholars of literature and film alike. |
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Contents
Is there a text in the screening room? | 1 |
The cinema of attractions and the novel in Barry Lyndon and Tom Jones | 16 |
Three cinematic Robinsonades | 35 |
Adaptations of Defoes Moll Flanders | 52 |
Film censorship and the corrupt original of Gullivers Travels | 70 |
Adapting Fielding for film and television | 88 |
The spaces of Clarissa in text and film | 106 |
Jacques le fataliste on film from metafiction to metacinema | 123 |
Carnal to the point of scandal on the affair of La Religieuse | 139 |
Adaptation and cultural criticism Les Liaisons dangereuses 1960 and Dangerous Liaisons | 157 |
Mapping Goethes Wilhelm Meister onto Wenders Wrong Move | 175 |
Rob Roy the other eighteenth century? | 192 |
Filmography | 211 |
Bibliography | 217 |
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