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The Writer on Film

Screening Literary Authorship

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Editors:
  1. Judith Buchanan

    1. Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, UK
      Humanities Research Centre, University of York, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-2
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Judith Buchanan
      Pages 3-32

  3. Cinema’s Versions and Uses of Literary Lives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. The writer in film: authorship and imagination

      • Laura Marcus
      Pages 35-49

    6. Authorship Iconized, Metonymized, Debunked

      1. The ‘tables of memory’: Shakespeare, cinema and the writing desk
        • Megan Murray-Pepper
        Pages 92-105

    7. Authorship Commercialized

      1. Brit-lit biopics, 1990–2010
        • Andrew Higson
        Pages 106-120
      2. Literary biopics: a literary biographer’s perspective
        • Geoffrey Wall
        Pages 121-134

  4. Cinema’s Authorial Proxies and Fictional Authors

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Authorial Proxies I

      1. Hemingway adapted: screening the star author
        • R. Barton Palmer
        Pages 137-150

    3. Authorial Proxies II

      1. Becoming Jane in screen adaptations of Austen’s fiction
        • Deborah Cartmell
        Pages 151-163

    6. Fictional Writers on Screen I: Letters

      1. Deliveries of absence: epistolary structures in classical cinema
        • Clara Rowland
        Pages 193-205

    8. Fictional Writers on Screen III: Plays and Factual Reports

      1. Documentary li(v)es: writing falsehoods, righting wrongs in von Donnersmarck’s <i>The Lives of Others</i> (2006)
        • Judith Buchanan
        Pages 218-235

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 236-270
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About this book

Examining films about writers and acts of writing, The Writer on Film brilliantly refreshes some of the well-worn 'adaptation' debates by inviting film and literature to engage with each other trenchantly and anew – through acts of explicit configuration not adaptation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, UK

    Judith Buchanan

  • Humanities Research Centre, University of York, UK

    Judith Buchanan

About the editor

Judith Buchanan, University of York, UK Laura Marcus, University of Oxford, UK Sonia Haiduc, University of Barcelona, Spain Sian Harris, University of Exeter, UK Julian North, University of Leicester, UK Megan Murray-Pepper, King's College, UK Andrew Higson, University of York, UK Geoffrey Wall, University of York, UK R. Barton Palmer, Clemson University, USA Deborah Cartmell, De Montfort University, UK Gennelle Smith, Freelance Creator of Interactive Media, UK Richard Burt, University of Florida, USA Clara Rowland, University of Lisbon, Portugal Erica Sheen, University of York, UK

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