Table of Contents

Contents

Preface
Introduction:
Bazinian Adaptation: The Butcher Boy as Example
Colin MacCabe
1. The Economies of Adaptation
Dudley Andrew
2. Literary Appropriation and Translation in Early Cinema: Adapting Gerhardt
Hauptmann's Atlantis in 1913
Tom Gunning
3. Hearts of Darkness: Joseph Conrad and Orson Welles
James Naremore
4. Max Ophuls's Auteurist Adaptations
Laura Mulvey
5. To Have and Have Not: An Adaptive System
Kathleen Murray
6. Happier with Dreams: Constructing the Lisbon Girls through Nondiegetic Sound in
The Virgin Suicides
Stephanie McKnight
7. Universalizing a Nation and the Adaptation of Trainspotting
Shelagh Patterson
8. Getting Away with Homage: The Alternative Universes of Ghost World
Jonathan Loucks
9. Indexing an Icon: T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom and David Lean's
Lawrence of Arabia
Alison Patterson
10. Shades of Horror: Fidelity and Genre in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
Jarrell D. Wright
11. Contempt Revisited: Godard at the Margins of Adaptation
Rick Warner
Afterword:
Adaptation as a Philosophical Problem
Fredric Jameson

Notes on Contributors
Index

About the Author

Colin MacCabe is Distinguished Professor of English and Film, University of Pittsburgh and Professor of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the editor of Critical Quarterly and the author of several books, including The Butcher Boy (2007), T.S. Eliot (2006), Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy (2003), The Eloquence of the Vulgar (1998) and James Joyce and the
Revolution of the Word (1978, second ed. 2002). He has produced or executive produced more than 10 feature films and more than 30 hours of television documentaries on the history of the cinema (for the British Film Institute and Minerva Pictures).

Kathleen Murray is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her M.A. in Media Studies from New School University in 2003.

Rick Warner is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of articles on New Taiwan Cinema, relations between "old" and "new" media, the films of Chris Marker, and the video projects of Jean-Luc Godard.

Reviews

" 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 London
"True to the Spirit revives adaptation as a key conceptual framework for understanding cinema's intricate political and aesthetic dialogues-and disagreements-with works in other media. This is a generous book: it addresses a surprising range of films and texts, and will foster the creativity of its readers through its expansive, historically detailed case studies." --Karla Oeler, Emory University