Adaptation and the new art film : remaking the classics in the twilight of cinema

Adaptation and the new art film : remaking the classics in the twilight of cinema / William H. Mooney.

Since the 1990s, the expropriation of canonical works of cinema has been a fundamental dimension of art-film exploration. Rainer Werner Fassbinder provides an early model of open adaptation of film classics, followed ever more boldly by the Coen Brothers, Chantal Akerman, Alex Carax, Todd Haynes, Fl...

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Main Author: Mooney, William H., 1948- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Series:Palgrave studies in adaptation and visual culture.
Subjects:
Film remakes > History and criticism.
Film adaptations > History and criticism.
Motion picture industry > History.
Film adaptations
Film remakes
Motion picture industry
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Douglas Sirk
  • Chapter 1: The Recreation of All that Heaven Allows as Angst Essen Seele Auf (Fear Eats the Soul, 1974)
  • Part 2: Derivations and Procedural Challenges
  • Chapter 2. The Palimpsestuous Ghost of Rome Open City (1945) in The Lives of Others (2006)
  • Chapter 3. Clouds of Sils Maria and All about Eve: Adapting a Classic Paradigm
  • Chapter 4. Leos Carax: Les Amants du Pont-Neuf and City Lights
  • Part 3: Nostalgic Adventures and Aesthetic Complications
  • Chapter 5. Chantal Akerman in the Labyrinth of Desire: La Captive, Marcel Proust, and Vertigo
  • Chapter 6. The Coen Brothers Retrospective Foreboding
  • Chapter 7. Baz Luhrmanns Outsized Ambition: The Great Gatsby and Citizen Kane
  • Chapter 8. Conclusion.

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