Conrad on Film
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- Editor: Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van Amsterdam
- Date Published: November 2006
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521026796
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Since the first film version of Joseph Conrad's Victory appeared on the silent screen in 1919, more than eighty film and video versions of his life and works have been made throughout the world. In a series of essays by leading film and literary scholars Conrad on Film surveys the history and theory of these adaptations, and examines the challenges faced by major directors such as Hitchcock, Welles, Coppola and Wajda in putting Conrad on film. This landmark study of Conrad films, and film adaptations in general, is well illustrated and includes a detailed filmography and film bibliography.
Read more- Conrad was the first major English author to adapt his work for the screen
- First comprehensive, international survey of film and video adaptation of Conrad's work
- First extended discussion of Conrad's own screenplay, Gaspar the Strong Man, long thought to be lost and never published in English
- Considers the work of key directors, including Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Francis Ford Coppola and Andrzej Wajda
- Well illustrated (includes a number of pictures never previously published)
- Includes a detailed filmography and film bibliography
- Contributors span the spectrum from literature to film
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521026796
- length: 280 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.43kg
- contains: 17 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
A note on texts and citations
In praise of infidelity: an introduction Gene M. Moore
1. Conradian ironies and the Conrad films Wallace S. Watson
2. Conrad's 'film-play' Gaspar the Strong Man Gene M. Moore
3. The Secret Agent sabotaged? Avrom Fleishman
4. The Woman Alone in Conrad and Hitchcock Lissa Schneider
5. The seeing ear: the presence of radio in Welles's Heart of Darkness Robert Spadoni
6. 'The Secret Sharer': film confronts story in Face to Face Warren French
7. Colonialism and local color in Outcast of the Islands and Lord Jim Catherine Dawson and Gene M. Moore
8. Cinematic fidelities in The Rover and The Duellists Allan Simmons
9. Literature, painting, and film: Wajda's adaptation of The Shadow-Line Tadeusz Miczka
10. The hollow heart of Hollywood: Apocalypse Now and the new sound space Thomas Elsaesser and Michael Wedel
11. Evil in Eden: on Vadim Glowna's Des Teufels Paradies Herbert G. Klein
12. The Secret Agent on the small screen Ted Billy
13. 2 1/2 film versions of Heart of Darkness Seymour Chatman
A Conrad filmography Gene M. Moore
A Conrad film bibliography Gene M. Moore
Index.
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