Literature Through Film – Realism, Magic, and the Art of Adaptation

Written by a leading figure in film and literary studies, this accessible textbook offers a first-rate analysis of the process and the art of literature-to-film adaptations.

• Provides a lively, rigorous, and clearly written account of key moments in the history of the novel from Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe up to Lolita and One Hundred Years of Solitude

• Emphasizes both the literary texts themselves and their varied transtextual film adaptations

• Examines numerous literary trends - from the self-conscious novel to magic realism - before exploring the cinematic impact of the movement

• Reinvigorates the field of adaptation studies by examining it through the grid of contemporary theory

• Brings novels and film adaptations into the age of multiculturalism, postcoloniality, and the Internet by reflecting on their contemporary relevance