Bibliograph

The Modern American novel and the movies, edited by Gerald Peary and Roger Shatzkin

Type

Label

The Modern American novel and the movies, edited by Gerald Peary and Roger Shatzkin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Filmography: p. 349-428Bibliography: p. 429-443

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Modern American novel and the movies

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

4192104

Responsibility statement

edited by Gerald Peary and Roger Shatzkin

Series statement

Ungar film library

Summary

Includes John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, etc

Table Of Contents

Tobacco road, Erskine Caldwell: Three roads taken: the novel, the play, and the film -- Miss lonelyhearts, Nathanael West: Miss L. gets married -- They shoot horses, don't they?, Horace McCoy: The unreal McCoy -- Pylon, William Faulkner: from the folklore of speed to Danse macabre -- The treasure of the Sierra Madre, B. Traven: Gold hat, gold fever, silver screen -- Of mice and men, John Steinbeck: Thoughts on a great adaptation -- To have and have not, Ernest Hemingway: To have and have not adapted a novel -- The big sleep, Raymond Chandler: Who cares who killed Owen Taylor? -- The day of the locust, Nathanael West: : The madding crowd in the movies -- The grapes of wrath, John Steinbeck: Trampling out the vintage: sour grapes -- The heart is a lonely hunter, Carson McCullers: Two planetary systems -- Native son, Richard Wright: Two rights, one wrong -- In this our life, Ellen Glasglow: Independent woman, doomed sister -- The human comedy, William Saroyan: Mr. Saroyan's thoroughly American movie -- All the king's men, Robert Penn Warren: In which Humpty Dumpty becomes king -- Intruder in the dust, William Faulkner: Rites of passage: novel to film -- The naked and the dead, Norman Mailer: Naked before the cinema -- The man with the golden arm, Nelson Algren: Anatomy of a junkie movie -- The old man and the sea, Ernest Hemingway: Film and mythic heroism: Sturge's old man -- Night of the hunter, Davis Grubb: Charles Laughton on Grubb street -- The last hurrah, Edwin O'Connor: John Ford's Boston -- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov: The celluloid Lolita: a not-so-crazy quilt -- Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote: Brunch on Moon river -- Rabbit, run, John Updike: Rabbit runs down -- Catch-22, Joseph Heller: Did the author catch the movie? -- One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Ken Kesey: Kesey cured: Forman's sweet insanity -- Little big man, Thomas Berger: Berger and Penn's west: Visions and revisions -- Slaughterhouse-five, or The children's crusade, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Novel into film: so it goes -- Deliverance, James Dickey: Dickey down the river -- Appendix: the politics of adaptation -- The wet parade, Upton Sinclair: Que viva prohibition? -- For whom the bell tolls, Ernest Hemingway: The "unmaking" of a political film -- The fountainhead, Ayn Rand: Ayn Rand in the stockyard of the spirit

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