| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
All Quiet on the Western Front -- Anita and Me -- Apocalypse Now -- Around the World in 80 Days (1956) -- Atonement -- A Beautiful Mind -- Big Fish -- Billy Budd -- The Birds -- Blade Runner -- Breakfast at Tiffany's -- The Bridge on the River Kwai -- Brokeback Mountain -- Casablanca -- Children of Men (2006) -- The Client -- Cold Comfort Farm -- Cold Mountain -- The Color Purple -- Contact -- Cool Hand Luke -- David Copperfield -- The Descendants -- Double Indemnity -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) -- Emma -- Empire of the Sun -- The English Patient -- Fahrenheit 451 -- A Farewell to Arms (1932) -- Field of Dreams -- For Whom the Bell Tolls -- Forrest Gump -- The French Connection -- Gigi -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -- The Godfather -- Gone with the Wind -- The Graduate -- The Grapes of Wrath -- Great Expectations (1946) -- The Great Gatsby (2013) -- Hamlet (1948) -- Harry Potter series -- The Help -- Hidden Figures -- The Hunger Games -- I Am Legend -- The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) -- Into the Wild -- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) -- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) -- The Invisible Man -- It's a Wonderful Life -- Jaws -- Jurassic Park -- The Kite Runner -- Les Misérables (1935) -- Little Women (1933) -- The Lord of the Rings -- The Magnificent Ambersons -- The Maltese Falcon (1941) -- The Martian -- "Master Harold" and the Boys -- McCabe and Mrs. Miller -- Memento -- Mystic River -- No Country for Old Men -- O Brother, Where Art Thou? -- Of Mice and Men (1939) -- Ordinary People -- The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) -- Precious -- Psycho -- The Reluctant Fundamentalist -- A River Runs Through It -- Romeo and Juliet (1936) -- The Scarlet Letter (1934) -- Schindler's List -- Scrooge (1951) -- The Searchers -- Searching for Bobby Fischer -- The Secret Life of Bees -- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) -- Sense and Sensibility -- Seven Years in Tibet -- The Shawshank Redemption -- The Shining -- Siddhartha -- The Silence of the Lambs -- Stand by Me -- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans -- Terms of Endearment -- There Will Be Blood -- To Kill a Mockingbird -- Touching the Void -- 12 Angry Men -- 12 Years a Slave -- 2001: A Space Odyssey -- Vertigo |
| Summary |
This book explores how a story makes its way from the printed page to the screen. The novels covered represent a wide range of years, genres, and stories. Essays are arranged alphabetically by film title, and each essay offers information about both the book (author and date of publication) and the film (year released, director, screenwriter and actors) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 11, 2018) |
| Subject |
Fiction -- Film adaptations -- History and criticism
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Film adaptations -- History and criticism
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Motion pictures and literature.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Film adaptations
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Motion pictures and literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Film adpatations.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dean, D. Alan, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781682179550 |
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1682179559 |
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