Contents
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Classics Across the Film/ Literature Divide
1. 'If Only You Could See What I've Seen with Your Eyes': Blade Runner and La Symphonie Pastorale
2. Classic Shakespeare for All: Forbidden Planet and Prospero's Books, Two Screen Adaptations of The
3. The Red and the Blue: Jane Eyre in the 1990s
4. Transcultural Aesthetics and the Film Adaptations of Henry James
5. 'Hystorical' Puritanism: Contemporary Cinematic Adaptations of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet
6. Mrs Dalloway and Orlando: The Subject of Time and Generic Transactions
7. 'Desire Projected Itself Visually': Watching Death in Venice
8. Leopold Bloom Walks and Jimmy Stewart Stares: On Motion, Genre and the Classic
9. Trial and Error: Combinatory Fidelity in Two Versions of Franz Kafka's The Trial
10. In Cold Blood : Yellow Birds, New Realism and Killer Culture
11. Home by Tea- time: Fear of Imagination in Disney's Alice in Wonderland