Patricia Highsmith on Screen
This book is the first full-length study to focus on the various film adaptations of Patricia Highsmith's novels, which have been a popular source for adaptation since Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1952). The collection of essays examines films such as The Talented Mr. Ripley, T...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2018. |
Σειρά: | Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 1. Introduction: Patricia Highsmith on Screen, Douglas McFarland and Wieland Schwanebeck
- 2. The Dark Side of Adaptation, Thomas Leitch
- Section I: Doubles, Copies, and Strangers
- 3. "I Meet a Lot of Guys--But Not Many Like You": Strangers and Types in Highsmith's and Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, Bran Nicol
- 4. Strangers on a Park Bench: From Highsmith to Alfred Hitchcock to Woody Allen, Klara Stephanie Szlezák
- 5. Tom Ripley's Talent, Murray Pomerance
- 6. Ripley Under Ground and Its Illegitimate Heirs, Wieland Schwanebeck
- Section II: Queer Encounters
- 7. Queer Ripley: Minghella, Highsmith, and the Anti-Social
- David Greven
- 8. The Price of Salt, Carol, and Queer Narrative Desire(s), Alison L. McKee
- 9. "Easy Living": From The Price of Salt (78) to Carol (EP), Robert Miklitsch
- Section III: Aesthetic, Mythic, and Cultural Transaction
- 10. Adapting Irony: Claude Chabrol's The Cry of the Owl, Douglas McFarland
- 11. With Friends Like These: Wim Wenders' The American Friend as Noir Allegory, Christopher Breu
- 12. Hans Geissendörfer's Psychological Noir: West-German Adaptations of Patricia Highsmith Novels, Erin Altman and William Mahan
- 13. Authorship and Scales of Adaptation in Chillers, Kristopher Mecholsky
- 14. The Two Faces of January: Theseus and the Minotaur, Catherine McFarland
- Section IV: Adapters in Conversation
- 15. Memories of The American Friend, Wim Wenders
- 16. "Highsmith really writes films", Hans W. Geißendörfer
- 17. "An interesting lack of sentimentality", Hossein Amini
- 18. "Highsmith was the queen of guilt", Phyllis Nagy.