You should look into Matthew Buckingham's film, "A Man
of the Crowd" -- adapted from Poe's "The Man of the
Crowd." It is an installation from 2003, not available
on video but well worth reading about.
Best,
Cara
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> Dear film-philosophers,
>
> A colleague of mine is preparing a course on "Visual
> Literacies" and asked me the following question:
>
> i was wondering if you had any suggestions for books
> that were made
> into movies. i know of a lot of adaptations, but do
> you know of any that move
> from narrative (in the book) to a non-narrative
> format in film? i'm trying to
> find something to illustrate that visuality (the
> visual as text) can DO things
> differently than written text. even non-narrative
> film would work, but an
> adaptation would be most instructive, i think.
>
> I gave her a few suggestions of interesting
> adaptations that didn't do exactly what she was
> asking (e.g. Adaptation tries to go from a
> quasi-narrative to a quasi-narrative but ends up
> succumbing to narrative conventions of Hollywood
> film; "Mon Oncle d'Amerique" can be thought of as an
> adaptation of Henri Laborit's semi-popular studies
> of bio-cybernetics, that employs multiple narratives
> to convey ideas), but otherwise I'm stumped.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Nate Andersen
> Eckerd College
>
>
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