[PDF.79gu] True to the Spirit: Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity

True to the Spirit: Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity

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 | #2713220 in Books |  2011-01-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.10 x.80 x9.10l,.86 | File type: PDF | 264 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| best book in the field so far|By Customer|The best text on the subject of adaptation out there. It does not present a manifesto attempting to define a priori how one should approach the relation between film and literature. Instead, it thematizes the complex notion of fidelity and challenges recent arguments that attack the notion of fidelity and dismiss considerations of it o| ||" It is not too much to say that this book is simply ground-breaking, easily and by far the best book on this important subject, and one that should be required reading of all film and literature students."--Lee Grieveson, University College

Fifty percent of Hollywood productions each year are adaptations--films that use an already published book, dramatic work, or comic as their source material. If the original is well known, then for most spectators the question of whether these adaptations are "true to the spirit" of the original is central. The recent wave of adaptation studies dismisses the question of fidelity as irrelevant, mistaken, or an affront to the unstable nature of meaning itself. The essays g...

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