The Literary Filmography: Preface, A-L : 6,200 Adaptations of Books, Short Stories And Other Nondramatic Works (Literary Filmography)
By Leonard Mustazza.
Description
From the very infancy of the film industry, filmmakers have relied heavily upon literature as the foundation for their movie material. Well-known literary works such as Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter were adapted to film in the silent era, as were such books as Thomas Dixon’s Jr.’s The Klansman, basis for the film Birth of a Nation. In recent years, Nick Hornsby’s About a Boy and each of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary novels were the basis for popular movies bearing the same names. A guide to English-langua...
ISBN(s)
0786425032, 9780786425037
