... film adaptations. The first Fu Manchu ‘talkie’, The Mysterious Fu Manchu (1929), starring Warner Oland as the master villain, begins with the Boxer Rebellion and endows Dr Fu Manchu with a surprising humanity. Fu is not on the side of the Boxers as one would expect, given his present-day...

... as a reflection of the filmmaker's exploration of different forms of causality and the relationship between human innovation and fate. narrative motion pictures film adaptations D. W. Griffith Frank Norris naturalism Now the action begins to increase in speed. The complication suddenly tightens … an episode...

... Wallace George Johnson Lyndon Power Lewis John Civil Rights Movement Jim Crow Domestic Labor Feminism Racial Stereotypes Film Adaptations What then does the Negro want? He wants to get rid of racial segregation in Mississippi life because he knows it has not been good for him nor for the State...

...This chapter examines the three film adaptations of Maxim Gorky's novel Mother. It compares the directorial styles of film directors Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mark Donskoi and Gleb Panfilov, and their adherence to Gorky's plot. The chapter suggests that through these three Mother...

... is a film adaptation of a successful Broadway production, made as a contribution to the American war effort even as it suffered backlash for this same reason. Garbo Greta Hot Spell 1957 Daniel Mann Hughes Howard Legion of Decency Outlaw The 1943 Howard Hughes Wild is the Wind 1958 George Cukor Bennett...

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... 1949. It also discusses other factors that contributed to the popularity of Romberg and his music, including the success of the film adaptations of his operettas. “Evening with Sigmund Romberg An ” legacy MacRae Gordon operettas adaptations popularity radio programs Railroad Hour The revivals...

...This article considers whether film adaptations of Middleton's plays are really that much different from their Shakespearian counterparts. Is there something genuinely new occurring in these adaptations? The answer is an unqualified ‘yes’. It is shown that while Middleton adaptations tend...

...This chapter discusses Solaris and its three film adaptations by Boris Nirenburg (1968), Andrei Tarkovsky (1972), and Steven Soderbergh (2002). Flawed as they are in different ways, each casts light on Stanislaw Lem’s original as well as on one another, illuminating the fact that a successful...

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... industry Marilena Aravantinou Yannis Maris Psychological thriller Crime literature and film adaptations Film genres in post-war Greek cinema Man on the Train Dinos Dimopoulos If someone asks, ‘Who is the most iconic femme fatale character in the classic Hollywood noir?’, we would...

... and Sondheim’s own negative views by coming to the defense of the 1978 film adaptation of A Little Night Music, a musical that was itself based on a film. Drawing on extensive archival investigations, the chapter details the deletions, revisions, and new material created by Sondheim...

... boba A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare Belle Epoque La colmena Nuevo Cine Español NCE Los santos inocentes Heritage cinema Spanish cinema Film adaptations Transnationalism Performance The development of Film Studies as an autonomous academic discipline was characterised by stressing...

... for this neglect, the present chapter takes a closer look at three of Adventure Time’s most important ancillary offsprings: the mainline comic book series (written largely by Ryan North and Christopher Hastings), the Adventure Time video games, and the abandoned film adaptation...

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.... It suggests that these works can be closely related to Romberg's Broadway operettas in terms of overall aesthetic and musical style. This chapter also states that Romberg's stage works were also transferred to the silver screen and that there are eleven film adaptations of his operettas. cinema films...

...This chapter examines the basic taxonomy of stylistic remediation and the various evolving contexts grounding it within film adaptations of comic book properties. More specifically, it considers how two unique aspects of form comics—graphical representation and the multiframe—were remediated...

...This chapter discusses how the unrelated sequences in Kubrick’s film adaptations are, on the one hand, inserted in symmetrical syuzhet structures, in which the end mirrors the beginning, and/or in plots are strongly ordered into parts. The geometry of the plot construction is often...