PULPING FICTIONS: Consuming Culture Across the English/Media Divide (Film/Fiction) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745310702 ISBN 13: 9780745310701

Verlag: Pluto Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Cartmell Deborah Hunter IQ Haye Heidi Whelehan Ime

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Críticas:

'Sparky, droll and intelligent' -- Guardian

Reseña del editor:

‘A very exciting and useful collection.' Dr D Bell, Staffordshire University

'I.Q. Hunter's piece on Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is sparky, droll and intelligent, rather like the film itself.' The Guardian

Taking Quentin Tarantino’s dictionary definition of 'pulp fiction' as its starting point, Pulping Fictions explores the unease with which film and television adaptations are often received.

Branagh's film of Henry V, the filming of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Angela Carter's adaptability from book to screen are examined. The transference of the grand narratives of history into theme park youth culture is explored via Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and the folk-myth rendition of Mel Brooks's 'irreverent' Robin Hood: Men in Tights. The notion of 'planning' is examined in the evolution of Neil Jordan's film of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire and the exploitation of textual/cinematic strategies is revealed in Sally Potter's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando. The BBC’s decision to film Middlemarch in Stamford is considered and, concluding the volume, charges against Tarantino for exploiting the banal and vulgar tastes of mass culture are refuted in a reading of his Pulp Fiction.

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• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0745310702
• ISBN 13: 9780745310701
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 168
• Herausgeber: Cartmell Deborah