Overview
- Provides a unique focus on film-to-film multiplicities in adaptation and remaking
- Investigates the transnational art film remaking of films and books
- Discusses the reuse of canonical films in the new art film
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture (PSADVC)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Adapting a Classic Film
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Since the 1990s, the expropriation of canonical works of cinema has been a fundamental dimension of art-film exploration. Rainer Werner Fassbinder provides an early model of open adaptation of film classics, followed ever more boldly by the Coen Brothers, Chantal Akerman, Alex Carax, Todd Haynes, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Baz Luhrmann, and Olivier Assayas. This book devotes chapters to each of these directors to examine how their films redeploy landmark precursors such as City Lights (1931), Citizen Kane (1941), Rome Open City (1945), All About Eve (1950), and Vertigo (1958) in order to probe our psychological, philosophical, and historical situations in a postmodern société du spectacle. In broadly diverse ways, each of these directors complicates received notions of the past and its representation, while probing the transformative media evolution and dislocation of the present, in film art and in society.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
William H. Mooney is Professor of Film and Media at the Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY) in New York City, USA, and Chairperson of the Film, Media, and Performing Arts department. Previous publications include Dashiell Hammett and the Movies (2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Adaptation and the New Art Film
Book Subtitle: Remaking the Classics in the Twilight of Cinema
Authors: William H. Mooney
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62934-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62933-5Published: 23 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62936-6Published: 23 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62934-2Published: 21 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-629X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6303
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 279
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Adaptation Studies, American Cinema and TV, Global Cinema and TV