Adaptation and Literary Cinema: 1959-72

by R. Barton Palmer

Book Overview

Since the general entertainment model pioneered during the classic studio failed to continue to attract audiences sufficient to sustain the industry, niche production was the answer. Literary sources, screened in a fashion that emphasized their literariness, constituted one (if not the only) successful response of the industry to these changed conditions. Internationally-acclaimed scholar Barton Palmer illuminates the role played by adaptation in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162892733X
• ISBN13: 9781628927337
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages