Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 A very American fable: the making of a Mohicans adaptation
- 2 Romancing the letter: screening a Hawthorne classic
- 3 The movies in the Rue Morgue: adapting Edgar Allan Poe for the screen
- 4 Readapting Uncle Tom's Cabin
- 5 Screening authorship: Little Women on screen 1933–1994
- 6 Melville's Moby-Dick and Hollywood
- 7 Screening male sentimental power in Ben-Hur
- 8 John Huston's The Red Badge of Courage
- 9 Translating Daisy Miller
- 10 Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady
- 11 The Europeans – and the Americans
- 12 Sister Carrie becomes Carrie
- 13 Hollywood and The Sea-Wolf
- 14 An untypical typicality: screening Owen Wister's The Virginian
- Filmography
- Index
Notes on contributors
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 A very American fable: the making of a Mohicans adaptation
- 2 Romancing the letter: screening a Hawthorne classic
- 3 The movies in the Rue Morgue: adapting Edgar Allan Poe for the screen
- 4 Readapting Uncle Tom's Cabin
- 5 Screening authorship: Little Women on screen 1933–1994
- 6 Melville's Moby-Dick and Hollywood
- 7 Screening male sentimental power in Ben-Hur
- 8 John Huston's The Red Badge of Courage
- 9 Translating Daisy Miller
- 10 Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady
- 11 The Europeans – and the Americans
- 12 Sister Carrie becomes Carrie
- 13 Hollywood and The Sea-Wolf
- 14 An untypical typicality: screening Owen Wister's The Virginian
- Filmography
- Index
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- Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen , pp. ix - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007