The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film, Second Edition provides a look at more than 300 American and foreign novels and their film adaptations. This reference explores both the popular and lesser-known films that have come to define this genre. Providing an in-depth look at how books are selected for the silver screen.
The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film, Second Edition provides a look at more than 300 American and foreign novels and their film adaptations. This ref...
Completely revised and updated, this engaging reference provides a comprehensive, in-depth look at more than 300 American and foreign novels and their film adaptations. This edition includes more than 30 all-new entries and numerous updates to cover new adaptations, as well as many new photographs.
Completely revised and updated, this engaging reference provides a comprehensive, in-depth look at more than 300 American and foreign novels and their...
This book provides needed information on the collaborations between filmmakers and theater personnel before 1930 and completes our understanding of how two art forms influenced each other. It begins with the vaudeville and faerie dramas captured in brief films by the Edison and Biograph companies; follows the development of feature-length Sarah Bernhardt and James O'Neill films after 1912; examines the formation of theater/film combination companies in 1914-15; and details later collaborations during the talking picture revolution of 1927. Includes detailed analyses of important theatrical...
This book provides needed information on the collaborations between filmmakers and theater personnel before 1930 and completes our understanding of ho...
This book brings together the author's interviews with many prominent figures in fantasy, horror, and science fiction to examine the traditions and extensions of the gothic mode of storytelling over the last 200 years and its contemporary influence on film and media.
This book brings together the author's interviews with many prominent figures in fantasy, horror, and science fiction to examine the traditions and ex...
Peter Weir: Interviews is the first volume of interviews to be published on the esteemed Australian director. Although Weir (b. 1944) has acquired a reputation of being guarded about his life and work, these interviews by archivists, journalists, historians, and colleagues reveal him to be a most amiable and forthcoming subject. He talks about -the precious desperation of the art, the madness, the willingness to experiment- in all his films; the adaptation process from novel to film, when he tells a scriptwriter, -I'm going to eat your script; it's going to be part of my blood -;...
Peter Weir: Interviews is the first volume of interviews to be published on the esteemed Australian director. Although Weir (b. 1944) has ac...
Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century brings to life the most popular movie star of his day, the personification of the Golden Age of Hollywood. At his peak, in the teens and twenties, the swashbuckling adventurer embodied the new American Century of speed, opportunity, and aggressive optimism. The essays and interviews in this volume bring fresh perspectives to his life and work, including analyses of films never before examined. Also published here for the first time in English is a first-hand production account of the making of Fairbanks's last silent film, The Iron...
Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century brings to life the most popular movie star of his day, the personification of the Golden Age of H...
What was it like to work behind the scenes, away from the spotlight's glare, in Hollywood's so-called Golden Age? The interviews in this book provide eye-witness accounts from the likes of Steven Spielberg and Terry Gilliam, to explore the creative decisions that have shaped some of Classical Hollywood's most-loved films.
What was it like to work behind the scenes, away from the spotlight's glare, in Hollywood's so-called Golden Age? The interviews in this book provide ...
Horror novelist Peter Straub creates highly personalized fiction with an allusiveness and ambiguity that deny the genre's explicit nature. For him, the Gothic style is to be created and recreated in a changing world--Faustian pacts, buried secrets, haunted places, ghosts, vampires and succubi take on strange new shapes and effects. Stephen King describes Straub's style as "a synthesis of horror and beauty." Drawing on interviews with Straub and featuring an exclusive interview with King, this study explores the work of the author who has been called "a writer of rare wit and intelligence in a...
Horror novelist Peter Straub creates highly personalized fiction with an allusiveness and ambiguity that deny the genre's explicit nature. For him, th...
