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When Stories Travel: Cross-Cultural Encounters between Fiction and Film
Cristina Della Coletta
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Description for When Stories Travel: Cross-Cultural Encounters between Fiction and Film
Hardback. With a firm grasp on the latest developments in adaptation theory, Della Coletta invites scholars of media studies, cultural history, comparative literature, and adaptation studies to deepen their understanding of this critical encounter between texts, writers, readers, and cultural movements. Num Pages: 288 pages, 29, 29 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510.
Adapting fiction into film is, as author Cristina Della Coletta asserts, a transformative encounter that takes place not just across media but across different cultures. In this book, Della Coletta explores what it means when the translation of fiction into film involves writers, directors, and audiences who belong to national, historical, and cultural formations different from that of the adapted work. In particular, Della Coletta examines narratives and films belonging to Italian, North American, French, and Argentine cultures. These include Luchino Visconti's adaptation of James M. Cain's "The Postman Always Rings Twice", Federico Fellini's version of Edgar Allan Poe's story ... Read more
Adapting fiction into film is, as author Cristina Della Coletta asserts, a transformative encounter that takes place not just across media but across different cultures. In this book, Della Coletta explores what it means when the translation of fiction into film involves writers, directors, and audiences who belong to national, historical, and cultural formations different from that of the adapted work. In particular, Della Coletta examines narratives and films belonging to Italian, North American, French, and Argentine cultures. These include Luchino Visconti's adaptation of James M. Cain's "The Postman Always Rings Twice", Federico Fellini's version of Edgar Allan Poe's story ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421403656
SKU
V9781421403656
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About Cristina Della Coletta
Cristina Della Coletta is a professor of Italian and associate chair of the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia. She is author of World's Fairs Italian-Style: The Great Expositions in Turin and Their Narratives and Plotting the Past: Metamorphoses of Historical Narrative in Modern Italian Fiction.
Reviews for When Stories Travel: Cross-Cultural Encounters between Fiction and Film
Della Coletta presents an interesting examination of cross-cultural adaptations of fiction to film... this study is an excellent resource for those interested in adaptation studies. Choice