Film Adaptation in the Hollywood Studio Era Debona Paperback John Wiley & Sons

Film Adaptation in the Hollywood Studio EraAuthor(s): Guerric DeBona\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252077371, 978-0252077371\nSynopsis\nIn this exceptional contribution to literary adaptation studies, Guerric DeBona shifts the focus away from determining a film's allegiance to the original source and redirects the conversation to the industrial choices, audience responses, and socio-cultural factors that contribute to the construction of the cinematic text.\n\nFilm Adaptation in the Hollywood Studio Era analyzes the intertextuality, cultural value, and authorship of four films from the 1920s to the 1950s based on canonical British and American novels. This unique methodological alternative to formalist \""fidelity\"" approaches to literary adaptations blends archival research with DeBona's own deft and culturally rich interpretations of David Copperfield [tel], Heart of Darkness [tel], The.