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Adaptation persists as a major area of inquiry in both film and literary studies. Over the past two decades, scholars have extended the debate well beyond George Bluestone's influential Novels into Film (1957) by taking into account such concerns as intertextuality and different forms of narrative enabled through new media. A dominant trend has been to dispense straight away with questions of fidelity and "faithfulness," the assumption being that such views are naive, moralistic, and rooted in a cultural prejudice against the audiovisual. While acknowledging the merits of this position-namely its complication of the one-way "page-to-screen" perspective-this collection seeks to put the question of fidelity back into play. The essays explore the ways in which the newer, more sophisticated approaches can still accommodate forms of fidelity between two or more texts without having to reinscribe untenable distinctions between "original" and "copy," and without having to argue from a strict media essentialist position that stages an impasse between linguistic and cinematic means of articulation. In addition, the scholars in this volume seek to recognize and account for fidelity's cultural currency among filmmakers and audiences alike, no matter how impossible fidelity might be in a literal sense. The selected essays offer an opportunity to showcase both well established adaptation scholars (Laura Mulvey, Dudley Andrew, Tom Gunning and James Naremore) and emerging voices in the field.

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: True to the Spirit
• Subtitle: Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity
• Author: Colin Maccabe, Kathleen Murray, Rick Warner
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9780195374667
• ISBN: 0195374665
• ID: 04518645
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 466 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 161 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. February 2011

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