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Ingersoll (emer., SUNY, College at Brockport), who has also written about film adaptations of the novels of E. M. Forster (Filming Forster, CH, Oct'12, 50-0767), acknowledges that addressing the connections between film and Virginia Woolf is a less straightforward endeavor than are most case studies of adaptation. In contrast to Forster's, Woolf's connection to film is not simply that of the author of a source text. First, she differed from many of her contemporaries (Forster, for example) in that she actively engaged film, writing both critically and theoretically about it and its relationship to the novel. Second, only a small number of her novels have been directly adapted to the screen, with varying success. Ingersoll analyzes these in depth. And third, Woolf appears as a character (via Nicole Kidman) in the acclaimed film adaptation of Michael Cunningham's The Hours. This trifold relationship accounts for Ingersoll's subtitle, on/and/in, which...on examination is apt. Ingersoll's investigation of the connections, as he terms it, between Woolf and film is thoughtful and useful scholarship for those interested in English literature and film studies. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *

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Earl G. Ingersoll is emeritus distinguished teaching professor and distinguished professor of English at the State University of New York, College at Brockport.

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