| Description |
xii, 461 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Ungar film library |
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Ungar film library.
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| Contents |
Tobacco Road (1932) / Erskine Caldwell -- Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) / Nathanael West -- They shoot horses, don't they? (1935) / Horace McCoy -- Pylon (1935) / William Faulkner -- The treasure of the Sierra Madre (1935) / B. Traven -- Of Mice and Men (1937) / John Steinbeck -- To have and have not (1937) / Ernest Hemingway -- The big sleep (1939) / Raymond Chandler -- The day of the locust (1939) / Nathanael West -- The grapes of wrath (1939) / John Steinbeck -- The heart is a lonely hunter (1940) / Carson McCullers -- Native son (1940) / Richard Wright -- In this our life (1941) / Ellen Glasgow -- The human comedy (1943) / William Saroyan -- All the king's men (1946) / Robert Pen Warren -- Intruder in the dust (1948) / William Faulkner -- The naked and the dead (1948) / Norman Mailer -- The man with the golden arm (1949) / Nelson Algren -- The old man and the sea (1952) / Ernest Hemingway -- Night of the hunter (1953) / Davis Grubb -- The last hurrah (1956) / Edwin O'Conner -- Lolita (1955) / Valdimir Nabokov -- Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) / Truman Capote -- Rabbit, run (1960) / John Updike -- Catch-22 (1961) / Joseph Heller -- One flew over the cuckoo's nest (1962) / Ken Kesey -- Little big man (1964) / Thomas Berger -- Slaughterhouse-Five, or the children's crusade (1969) / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- Deliverance (1970) / James Dickey -- The west parade (1931) / Upton Sinclair -- For whom the bell tolls (1940) / Ernest Hemingway -- The fountainhead (1943) / Ayn Rand |
| Summary |
Includes John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, etc |
| Analysis |
Geschichte 1932-1970 |
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ADAPTATIONS |
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ALL THE KINGS MEN (US, Robert Rossen, 1949) |
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BIG SLEEP, THE (US, Howard Hawkes, 1946) |
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BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (US, Blake Edwards, 1961) |
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CATCH 22 (US, Mike Nichols, 1970) |
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DAY OF THE LOCUST, THE (US, John Schlesinger, 1975) |
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DELIVERANCE (US, John Boorman, 1972) |
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GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940) |
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INTRUDER IN THE DUST (US, Clarence Brown, 1949) |
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LAST HURRAH, THE (US, John Ford, 1958) |
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LITTLE BIG MAN (US, Arthur Penn, 1970) |
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LOLITA (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1962) |
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NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (US, Charles Laughton, 1955) |
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OLD MAN AND THE SEA, THE (US, John Sturges, 1958) |
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ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (US, Milos Forman, 1975) |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 429-443 |
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Filmography: pages 349-428 |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
American fiction -- Film adaptations.
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American fiction -- Filmand video adaptations
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| Author |
Peary, Gerald.
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Shatzkin, Roger.
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| LC no. |
78004373 |
| ISBN |
0804426821 |
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0804466491 (paperback) |
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