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Adaptation Studies: Its Past, Present, and Future
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Adaptation Studies: Its Past, Present, and Future Thomas Leitch. Film Adaptation & Its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ. Bloomington and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 354 pp. $55.00 hardcover.
In Film Adaptation & Its Discontents Thomas Leitch treats an adapted text as something that does not simply reproduce or imitate an "original." On the contrary it should be treated as a work in its own right shaped by specific social, comme...
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The Literature/Film Reader: Issues of Adaptation
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; The Literature/Film Reader: Issues of Adaptation James M. Welsh and Peter Lev, Eds. Lanham, MD: Toronto and Plymouth, UK: The Scarecrow Press, 2007. The Literature/Film Reader focuses on the current state of adaptation studies in the United States, Great Britain and elsewhere. Some of articles have
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No Country for Adaptations
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; The annual Literature Film Association conference took place this past October at the University of Kansas, where scholars both new to the field and well established within it took part in several dialogues, over the course of four days, about the conference focus-"Adaptation, from Stage and Page
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Summer of Adaptations
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Letter from the Editor
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Letter from the Editors
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; This issue is the first produced by the new editorial staff of Literature/Film Quarterly. As our last issue reported, Jim Welsh, co-founding editor and longtime professor at Salisbury University, recently retired after over thirty years of dedicated service. Jim gave an eloquent farewell in that
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A Theory of Adaptation
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; Linda Hutcheon. A Theory of Adaptation. xviii. New York and London: Routledge, 2006. 232 pp. $22.95 paper. Despite its forbiddingly abstract title and its in-your-face opening sentence ("If you think adaptation can be understood by using novels and films alone, you're wrong students of film
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Francois Truffaut and Friends: Modernism, Sexuality and Film Adaptation.(Book review)
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; Francois Truffaut and Friends. Modernism, Sexuality and Film Adaptation By Robert Stam Rutgers University Press, 2006; 239 pp.; $62, hardcover; $23.95, paper. The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
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American Studies Association of Turkey 33rd Annual American Studies Conference In collaboration with The Literature Film Association (LFA)
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; Adapting America/America Adapted 8-10 October 2008 Bogazici University Istanbul, Turkey This conference seeks to define a new agenda for adaptation studies, specifically, as a branch of American Studies that not only encompasses literature and visual media, but also a wide range of subject areas
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Letter from the Editor: "Gaining Through Translation"
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; At the annual Literature and Film Association conference last October, I went to a panel discussion about "The Persistence of Fidelity" in relation to adaptation studies.1 This session was a highly animated and well-attended one, beginning with speeches from several of the Contributing Editors for
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