Overview
- Constitutes the first volume on Patricia Highsmith adaptations
- Contains discussions of prolific film directors, including Alfred Hitchcock, Todd Haynes, Wim Wenders, Liliana Cavani, Claude Chabrol
- Includes statements from artists who have adapted Highsmith
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture (PSADVC)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Doubles, Copies, and Strangers
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Front Matter
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Aesthetic, Mythic, and Cultural Transactions
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Front Matter
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In Conversation with the Adapters
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About this book
This book is the first full-length study to focus on the various film adaptations of Patricia Highsmith’s novels, which have been a popular source for adaptation since Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (1952). The collection of essays examines films such as The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Two Faces of January, and Carol, includes interviews with Highsmith adaptors and provides a comprehensive filmography of all existing Highsmith adaptations. Particular attention is paid to queer subtexts, mythological underpinnings, philosophical questioning, contrasting media environments and formal conventions in diverse generic contexts. Produced over the space of seventy years, these adaptations reflect broad cultural and material shifts in film production and critical approaches to film studies. The book is thus not only of interest to Highsmith admirers but to anyone interested in adaptation and transatlantic film history.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Douglas McFarland is Retired Professor of English and Classical Studies at Flagler College, USA. He is the co-editor of John Huston as Adaptor (2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Patricia Highsmith on Screen
Editors: Wieland Schwanebeck, Douglas McFarland
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96050-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96049-4Published: 20 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07140-0Published: 03 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96050-0Published: 08 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-629X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6303
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 294
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour