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The Writer on Film

Screening Literary Authorship

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-2
  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Judith Buchanan
      Pages 3-32
  3. Cinema’s Versions and Uses of Literary Lives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
    2. Authorship Iconized, Metonymized, Debunked

    3. Authorship Commercialized

      1. Brit-lit biopics, 1990–2010
        • Andrew Higson
        Pages 106-120
  4. Cinema’s Authorial Proxies and Fictional Authors

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
    2. Authorial Proxies I

      1. Hemingway adapted: screening the star author
        • R. Barton Palmer
        Pages 137-150
    3. Authorial Proxies II

    4. Fictional Writers on Screen I: Letters

    5. Fictional Writers on Screen III: Plays and Factual Reports

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 236-270

About this book

Examining films about writers and acts of writing, The Writer on Film brilliantly refreshes some of the well-worn 'adaptation' debates by inviting film and literature to engage with each other trenchantly and anew – through acts of explicit configuration not adaptation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, UK

    Judith Buchanan

  • Humanities Research Centre, University of York, UK

    Judith Buchanan

About the editor

Judith Buchanan, University of York, UK Laura Marcus, University of Oxford, UK Sonia Haiduc, University of Barcelona, Spain Sian Harris, University of Exeter, UK Julian North, University of Leicester, UK Megan Murray-Pepper, King's College, UK Andrew Higson, University of York, UK Geoffrey Wall, University of York, UK R. Barton Palmer, Clemson University, USA Deborah Cartmell, De Montfort University, UK Gennelle Smith, Freelance Creator of Interactive Media, UK Richard Burt, University of Florida, USA Clara Rowland, University of Lisbon, Portugal Erica Sheen, University of York, UK

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