Film and literature: an introduction and reader

PART 1 : Film and literature in the crosscurrents of history. The prehistory of film and literature

Filming literature : from early film and literature to classical form, 1895-1925

Testing and expanding the value of film and literature, 1915-1940

Pens, pulp, and the crisis of the word, 1940-1960

Academic cinema and international spectacles, 1960-1980

Books and movies as multimedia : into the new millennium

PART 2 : Major documents and debates. 2.1 Adaptation studies. Adaptation, or the cinema as digest / André Basin

Adaptation / Dudley Andrew

Beyond fidelity : the dialogics of adaptation / Robert Stam

Adaptation, translation, critique / Lawrence Venuti

Twelve fallacies in contemporary adaptation theory / Thomas Leich

2.2 Adaptation in history. Progress and endowment / Vachel Lindsay

Novel, short story, drama : the conditions for influence / Kristin Thompson

The means of photoplay / Hugo Münsterberg

Dickens, Griffith, and the film today / Sergei Eisenstein

The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility / Walter Benjamin

Literary forces encouraging the use of black writers / Mark A. Reid

Literature on the small screen : television adaptations / Sarah Cardwell

2.3 Authors and auteurs. The birth of a new avant-garde : la caméra-stylo / Alexandre Astruc

The auteur theory / Peter Wollen

The screenplay and authorship in adaptation / Jack Boozer

2.4 Novels, theater, poetry, and non-fiction. Theater and cinema / André Bazin

Acting : stage vs. screen / Leo Braudy

The limits of the novel and the limits of the film / George Bluestone

Readership and spectatorship / Judith Mayne

The lyrical film / P. Adams Sitney

The essay film : on thoughts occasioned by... Michel De Montaigne and Chris Marker / Timothy Corrigan

2.5 Major writers / major films : on William Shakespeare's Macbeth and Jane Austen's Emma. "When every noise appals me" : sound and fear in Macbeth and Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood / Evelyn Tribble

Out damned Scot : dislocating Macbeth in transnational film and media culture / Courtney Lehmann

Emma, interrupted : speaking Jane Austen in fiction and film / Hilary Schor

Adapting Jane Austen : the surprising fidelity of Clueless / William Galperin

2.6 Beyond film and literary texts. Materializing adaptation theory : the adaptation industry / Simone Murray

"How? (audiences)" / Linda Hutcheon

Searching for the origami : The Matrix and transmedia storytelling / Henry Jenkins

PART 3 : Writing about film and literature : critical terms, borders, and strategies. Analytical terms and categories

Major topics in adaptation studies

Writing about film and / versus literature.