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Author:   Jack Boozer
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780292718531

ISBN 10:   0292718535
Pages:   353
Publication Date:   01 July 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Screenplay and Authorship in Adaptation (Jack Boozer) Part I. Hollywood's Activist Producers and Major Auteurs Drive the Script 1. Mildred Pierce: A Troublesome Property to Script (Albert J. LaValley) 2. Hitchcock and His Writers: Authorship and Authority in Adaptation (Thomas Leitch) 3. From Traumnovelle (1927) to Script to Screen-Eyes Wide Shut (1999) (Jack Boozer) Part II. Screenplay Adapted and Directed By 4. Private Knowledge, Public Space: Investigation and Navigation in Devil in a Blue Dress (Mark L. Berrettini) 5. Strange and New . . . : Subjectivity and the Ineffable in The Sweet Hereafter (Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz) Part III. Writer and Director Collaborations: Addressing Genre, History, and Remakes 6. Adaptation as Adaptation: From Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief to Charlie (and Donald ) Kaufman's Screenplay to Spike Jonze's Film (Frank P. Tomasulo) 7. From Obtrusive Narration to Crosscutting: Adapting the Doubleness of John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman (R. Barton Palmer) 8. The Three Faces of Lolita, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Adaptation (Rebecca Bell-Metereau) 9. Traffic/Traffik: Race, Globalization, and Family in Soderbergh's Remake (Mark Gallagher) Part IV. Variations in Screenwriter and Director Collaborations 10. Adapting Nick Hornby's High Fidelity: Process and Sexual Politics (Cynthia Lucia) 11. Adaptable Bridget: Generic Intertextuality and Postfeminism in Bridget Jones's Diary (Shelley Cobb) 12. Who's Your Favorite Indian? : The Politics of Representation in Sherman Alexie's Short Stories and Screenplay (Elaine Roth) Notes on Contributors Index

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Jack Boozer is Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Communication at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He also has extensive professional and teaching experience in screenwriting and adapting literature to film. His previous book is Career Movies: American Business and the Success Mystique.

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