Filming Literature: The Art of Screen Adaptation

by Neil Sinyard

Book Overview

This is a comprehensive survey of the relationship between film and literature. It looks at the cinematic adaptations of such literary masters as Shakespeare, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and D.H. Lawrence, and considers the contribution to the cinema made by important literary figures as Harold Pinter, James Agree and Graham Greene. Elsewhere, the book draws intriguing analogies between certain literary and film artists, such as Dickens and Chaplin,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138969788
• ISBN13: 9781138969780
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"