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Teaching literary theory using film adaptations Teaching literary theory using film adaptations Kathleen L. Brown "Introduces ways to use film to introduce complex literary theories to students, coupling works of literature with attendant films to encourage classroom discussion. Includes psychoanalytic criticism… OL13760905W
No Country for Old Men No Country for Old Men Lynnea Chapman King In 2005, Cormac McCarthy's novel, No Country for Old Men, was published to wide acclaim, and in 2007, Ethan and Joel Coen brought their adaptation of McCarthy's novel to the screen. The film earned p… OL15183121W
Anime and the art of adaptation Anime and the art of adaptation Dani Cavallaro "This book evaluates three core facets of anime adaptation--how anime adaptations contribute to their original sources in stylistic, aesthetic, and psychological terms; how specific features of anime… OL15587258W
The Hugo Movie Companion The Hugo Movie Companion Brian Selznick This book is a companion guide to the motion picture and the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The book contains short biographies of the actors that played the characters in the movie, and short b… OL15947547W
The borrowers The borrowers Sherwood Smith The adventures of miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans. OL16036657W
The adaptation industry The adaptation industry Simone Murray "Adaptation constitutes the driving force of contemporary culture, with stories adapted across an array of media formats. However, adaptation studies has been concerned almost exclusively with textua… OL16215073W
Longitudinal data analysis Longitudinal data analysis Jason T. Newsom "This book provides accessible treatment to state-of-the-art approaches to analyzing longitudinal studies. Comprehensive coverage of the most popular analysis tools allows readers to pick and choose … OL16298117W
American literature on stage and screen American literature on stage and screen Thomas S. Hischak "Each literary work is first described and then every adaptation is examined with a discussion of how accurate the version is and how well it succeeds. In addition to famous novels and short stories … OL16654512W
Jane Austen in Hollywood Jane Austen in Hollywood Linda Troost,Sayre Greenfield In 1995 and 1996 six film or television adaptations of Jane Austen's novels were produced -- an unprecedented number. More amazing, all were critical and/or box office successes. What accounts for th… OL16709412W
The Hobbits The Hobbits Lynnette R. Porter For generations of entranced readers, and now a new generation of filmgoers, Tolkien is synonymous with his most famous creation - the hobbit. Written for all those who are interested in Tolkien's wo… OL17888352W
Small Walt and Mo the Tow Small Walt and Mo the Tow Elizabeth Verdick Walt the snowplow learns that, while his work is very important, there are some things he cannot do without the help of his new tow truck friend, Mo. OL18016464W
Stratton Stratton Duncan Falconer,Simon West,Warren Davis When a high-stakes M16 mission to intercept deadly biochemical weapons goes spectacularly wrong, special operative Stratton must face the threat of a former Soviet operative who resurfaces after bein… OL19735214W
Twelve Years a Slave Twelve Years a Slave Solomon Northup The true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York.who was kidnapped by slave hunters and sold into slavery where he endured degradation and abuse until his rescue twelve years la… OL20248285W
Queering the Shakespeare Film Queering the Shakespeare Film Anthony Guy Patricia A range of mainstream and independent English language film productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Twelfth Night, and The Merchant of Venice take centre stage in Queerin… OL20255038W
Sherlock Holmes Companion Sherlock Holmes Companion Daniel Smith > *The Sherlock Holmes Companion* contains all the necessary information to illuminate the great detective's work, from the early canon to the more recent incarnations of Holmes by Benedict Cumberbat… OL21544532W
Fiction as fact Fiction as fact Neil Longley York "Colonel Benjamin Henry Grierson led a cavalry expedition that General Ulysses S. Grant hoped would distract Confederate forces while the Union army made its move toward Vicksburg. In the spring of 1… OL3899872W
Shakespeare in space Shakespeare in space Herbert R. Coursen "The space of performance dictates what can occur within it. A proscenium stage as opposed to a thrust stage or black-and-white film as opposed to color film conditions what a Shakespeare script can … OL467372W
Born on the Fourth of July Born on the Fourth of July Ron Kovic This New York Times best seller (more than one million copies sold) details the author's life story (portrayed by Tom Cruise in the Oliver Stone film version)—from a patriotic soldier in Vietnam, to … OL5367577W
The Wizard of Oz catalog The Wizard of Oz catalog Fraser A. Sherman "This book provides synopses and basic bibliographical information for the forty Oz books in the original series and a number of related books by the Royal Historians of Oz; synopses and credits for … OL547490W
Best-sellers and their film adaptations in postwar America Best-sellers and their film adaptations in postwar America Jane Hendler "Best-Sellers and Their Film Adaptations in Postwar America looks at some of the most popular novels of the 1950s and examines how their representations of gender identity and conflict dispute and re… OL7798386W
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