Deborah Cartmell

Adaptations in the Sound Era (eBook, PDF)

1927-37

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

There is no disputing that the coming of sound heralded a new era for adaptations. We take it for granted today that a film is enhanced by sound but it was not a view unanimously held in the early period of sound cinema. While there was a substantial degree of skepticism in the late 1920s and early 30s about the advantages of sound, what we would call technophobia today, the inclusion of speech in screen versions of literary and theatrical works, undeniably revised what it was to be an adaptation: words.

Focusing on promotional materials, Adaptations in the Sound Era tracks early attempts to promote sound through the elevation of words in adaptations in the early sound period. The popular appeal of these films clearly stands in opposition to academic regard for them and the book reflects on the presence and marketing of 'words' in a variety of adaptations, from the introduction of sound in the late 1920s to the mid 1930s. This book contextualizes a range of adaptations in relation to debates about 'picturizations' of books in the early sound era, including reactions to the talking adaptation by writers such as, Irwin Panofsky, Aldous Huxley and Graham Greene. Film adaptations of Shakespeare, Dickens, gothic fiction and biopics are also discussed in relation to their use and promotion of sound or, more precisely, words.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781623564681
• Artikelnr.: 48421135

Autorenporträt

Deborah Cartmell is Professor of English and Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research, at De Montfort University, UK. A founding member of many organisations (including Literature on Screen and the Association of Adaptation Studies), she is Secretary of the Council for College and University English. As well as being general editor of the Screen Adaptations series, in 2010 she authored Screen Adaptations: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction: Early Reactions to Sound Adaptations Chapter 2:
The Taming of the Shrew (1929) and the First Adaptation of Shakespeare
Chapter 3: Sound Shakespeares in the 1930s Chapter 4: Sound Dickens in the
1930s Chapter 5: Sound and Early 1930s Biopics: Disraeli (1929), The
Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), Cleopatra (1934), The Barretts of
Wimpole Street (1934) Chapter 6: Sound and the Gothic Survival of 1931
Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Sound Adaptation Genre References: Key Critical
Works and a List of Adaptations