Dear
MECCSA Subscribers,
Those
members who have an interest in the below conference at the Centre
for Adaptations AT De
Montfort University may also be interested in the following title published by
Texas University Press:
Authorship
in Film Adaptation
Edited and with Introduction by Jack Boozer, Georgia State University in
Atlanta
Authoring a film adaptation of a literary source not only requires a media
conversion but also a transformation as a result of the differing dramatic demands
of cinema. The most critical central step in this transformation of a literary
source to the screen is the writing of the screenplay. The screenplay usually
serves to recruit producers, director, and actors; to attract capital
investment; and to give focus to the conception and production of the film
project. Often undergoing multiple revisions prior to production, the
screenplay represents the crucial decisions of writer and director that will
determine how and to what end the film will imitate or depart from its original
source.
Authorship
in Film Adaptation is an accessible, provocative text that opens up new
areas of discussion on the central process of adaptation surrounding the
screenplay and screenwriter-director collaboration. In contrast to narrow
binary comparisons of literary source text and film, the twelve essays in this
collection also give attention to the underappreciated role of the screenplay
and film pre-production that can signal the primary intention for a film.
Divided into four parts, this collection looks first at the role of Hollywood's
activist producers and major auteurs such as Hitchcock and Kubrick as they
worked with screenwriters to formulate their audio-visual goals. The second
part offers case studies of Devil in a Blue Dress and The Sweet
Hereafter, for which the directors wrote their own adapted screenplays.
Considering the variety of writer-director working relationships that are
possible, Part III focuses on adaptations that alter genre, time, and place,
and Part IV investigates adaptations that alter stories of romance, sexuality,
and ethnicity.
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UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sept
2008 384 pages 24 B&W photos
£20.99
PB 978-0-292-71853-1
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Subject: Centre for Adaptations One Day Conference and other events, 2 -
5 March 2009
10.00am-5.00pm
Clephan Building, Room 0.01
Admission: Free - Book Now
All welcome for the whole
or part of the day, including the Centre's launch at 4pm-5pm.
10.00 – 11.00: Yvonne
Griggs, ‘Beloved on and off Screen’
11.00 – 12.00: Claire
Monk, ‘Understandings of Adaptation and the Discourse of Authenticity: Audience
Perspectives’
12.00 – 1.00:
James Russell, ‘Children’s literature and Film Adaptation’
2.00 – 3.00: Imelda
Whelehan, ‘The Women’
3.00 – 4.00: Stuart
Price, ‘Classical Literature and Film Adaptation’
4.00 – 5.00: Launch of
the Centre for Adaptations
Tuesday, 3rd March
2.00pm-3.00pm
Clephan Building, room 0.01
Admission: Free - Book Now
Professor Jonathan Powell,
former Controller of BBC 1, Head of Drama for the BBC and Controller of Drama
at Carlton TV, is one of this country's most respected and experienced drama
producers. In his talk he draws on his wealth of experience to provide a
fascinating insight into the place and purpose of programmes such as Pride
and Prejudice and Bleak House on our TV screens.
1.00pm-2.00pm
Clephan Building, room 2.13
Admission: Free - Book Now
Author and screenwriter
since 1960, and Visiting Professor of Adaptation Studies at DMU, Andrew Davies
is especially known for his film adaptations of Vanity Affair (1998) as
well as Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Sense and Sensibility
(2008) for the BBC. Having also collaborated on the screenplays for both Bridget
Jones’ Diary films, The Sunday Telegraph described him as
“Britain's most successful adapter of classic texts, and certainly the
most prolific.” Andrew Davies makes a welcome return to cultural
eXchanges to discuss with Dr Deborah Cartmell and Professor Imelda Whelehan
(DMU) his recent TV adaptation of Little Dorrit.
For more information:
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/faculties/humanities/cultural-exchanges/
Dr Ian Hunter
Principal Lecturer and Subject Leader, Film Studies
Director of the Centre for Adaptations
Faculty of Humanities
De Montfort University
Clephan Building
The Gateway
Leicester LE1 9BH
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