The literature/film reader : issues of adaptation

Introduction: Issues of screen adaptation : what is truth? / James M. Welsh

It wasn't like that in the book

/ Brian McFarlane

Literature vs. literacy : two futures for adaptation studies / Thomas M. Leitch

Adaptation studies and the history of ideas : the case of Apocalypse now / Donald M. Whaley

Adaptation studies revisited : purposes, perspectives, and inspiration / Sarah Cardwell

The Cold War's "undigested apple-dumpling" : imaging Moby-Dick in 1956 and 2001 / Walter C. Metz

Trying harder : probability, objectivity, and rationality in adaptation studies / David L. Kranz

What is a "Shakespeare film," anyway? / James M. Welsh

Returning to Naples : seeing the end in Shakespeare film adaptation / Yong Li Lan

Pop goes the Shakespeare : Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / Elsie Walker

Reframing adaptation : representing the invisible (on The house of mirth, directed by Terence Davies, 2000) / Wendy Everett

Sucking Dracula : mythic biography into fiction into film, or Why Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula is not really Bram Stoker's Dracula or Wallachia's Dracula / James M. Welsh

Vertigo, novel and film / Peter Lev

Heinlein, Verhoeven, and the problem of the real : Starship troopers / J.P. Telotte

Literary hardball : the novel-to-screen complexities of The Manchurian candidate / Linda Constanzo Cahir

The oak : a balancing act from page to screen / Odette Caufman-Blumenfeld

Adaptation and the Cold War : Mankiewicz's The quiet American / Brian Neve

All the quiet Americans / C. Kenneth Pellow

Camille Claudel : biography constructed as melodrama / Joan Driscoll Lynch

W.C. Handy goes uptown : Hollywood constructs the American blues musician / John C. Tibbetts

Memoir and the limits of adaptation / William Mooney

Getting it right : the Alamo on film / Frank Thompson

"Plains" speaking : sound, sense, and sensibility in Ang Lee's Ride with the devil / John C. Tibbetts

Where are we going, where have we been? / Thomas M. Leitch

The future of adaptation studies / Peter Lev