Literatura

Inglesa

DE CINE

”The Cinema is a much more momentous invention than printing was. Before printing could affect you, you had to learn to read; and until 1870 you mostly had not learned to read. But even when you had, reading was not a practical business for a manual laborer. Ask any man who has done eight or ten hours heavy manual labor what happens to him when he takes up a book. He will tell you that he falls asleep in less than two minutes. Now, the cinema tells its story to the illiterate as well to the literate... And that is why the cinema is going to produce effects that all the books in the world could never produce.” Bernard Shaw, 1912

Visual Trip

round

English

Literature

Adapted

into Films

MAKING

FILMS

Poster for the cinématographe (1895)

The Jazz Singer, Alan Crosland (1927)

Shooting a scene at the Warner Bros. studio

Charlie Chaplin

Shaw

Devis

Louis B. Mayer

Clark Gable

POETRY

INTO

FILMS

The Canterbury Tales, Geofrey Chaucer (1387)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1971)

Dracula, Bram Stocker (1887)

The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner,S. T. Coleridge (1798)

Nosfearatu, F.W. Murnau (1922)

The Sentimental Bloke, Longford (1919)

Australian cockney verse

Over the Hill to the Poor House, W.Carleton (1832)

William Fox

September 18, 1920

Seldom has a motion picture been so deliberately sentimental as this one. Its assault upon the emotions is undisguised and sweeping.

Henry Millarde (1920)

Theda BaraA Fool There was, Frank Powell (1919)

vamp_n. 1 an unscrupulous flirt. 2 a woman who uses sexual attraction to exploit men. _v. 1 tr. allure or exploit (a man). 2 intr. act as a vamp.

Etymology abbr. of VAMPIRE"The Concise Oxford Dictionary,"

The Vampire, Rudyard Kipling (1888-89)

We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw.

The Heart of Darkness, J. Conrad ( 1902) The Hollow Men, T. S. Eliot (1925)

Francis Ford Coppola (1979)

FILMS

FROM

ENGLISH

PLAYS

Richard III, William Shakespeare (1595)

Laurence Olivier (1955)

Henry V, Shakespeare (1599)

Lawrence Olivier (1955)

Kenneth Branagh (1989)

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare (1595)

Baz Luhrmann (1996)

Hamlet, William Shakespeare (1601)

Laurence Olivier (1948)

Julius Caesar, Shakespeare (1599)Macbeth, Shakespeare (1602-1604)

Mankievicz (1953)

Roman Polansky (1971)

Othello, William Shakespeare (1602-1604) King Lear, William Shakespeare (1604-1606)

Akira Kurosawa

(1985)

Oliver Parker (1995)

The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde (1895)

Anthony Asquith (1952)

Pygmalion, Bernard Shaw (1914)

Anthony Asquith (1938)

George Cukor (1964)

Look Back in Anger, John Osborne (1956) The Entertainer, John Osborne (1958)

Tony Richardson (1960)

Tony Richardson (1958)

FILMS

FROM

AMERICAN

PLAYS

Greta Garbo

Anna Christie, Eugene O’Neill (1920)The Iceman Cometh, Eugene O’Neill (1939)

Clarence Brown (1930)

Frankenheimer (1973)

AA Streetcar Named Desire, T. Williams (1947)Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, T. Williams (1954)

Elia Kazan (1952)

Richard Brooks (1958)

Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller (1949)

Laslo Benedek (1951))

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Edward Albee (1962)

.Mike Nicholson (1966)

FILMS

FROM

ENGLISH

NOVELS

Le Morte D’Arthur, Tomas Malory (1485)

Excalibur, John Boorman (1981)

Tom Jones, Henry Fielding (1749)

Tony Richardson (1963)

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen (1811)Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (1813)

Ang Lee ( 1995).

Robert Z. Leonard (1940)

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (1818)

.John Whale (1931)

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (1837)

) William Wyler (1939) William Wyler (1939)

David Copperfield, Charles Dickens (1849)

George Cukor (1935)

.Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (1865)

Walt Disney (1951)

The Man Who Would Be King,

Rudyard Kipling (1892)

John Huston (1975)

Dracula, Bram Stocker (1897)

Tod Browning (1931)

The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad (1907)

Sabotage / A Woman Alone, Hitchcok (1936)

Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence (1920)

Ken Russell (1969)

D.H. D.H. Lawrence (1920

A Room with a View, E.M. Forster (1908)

.James Ivory (1985)

Dubliners (The Dead ), James Joyce (1914)

.The Dead, John Huston (1987)

The Third Man, Graham Greene (1950)

Carol Reed (1949)

FILMS

FROM

AMERICAN

NOVELS

The Last of the Mohicans, Fenimore Cooper (1826)

Michael Mann (1992)

The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel West (1850)

Victor Seastrom (1926)

Moby Dick, Herman Melville (1851)

John Huston (1956)

Peter Ustinov (1962)

Billy Budd, Herman Melville (1886 , left unfinished and not published until 1924)

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (1868-1869)

George Cukor (1933)

Gilliam Armstrong (1995)

The Bostonians, Henry James (1886)

.James Ivory (1984)

The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton (1920)

Martin Scorsese (1993)

The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler (1939)

.Howard Hawks (1946)

Intruder in the Dust, William Faulkner (1948)

.Clarence Brown (1948)

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Heminway (1940)

Sam Wood (1943)

Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell (1936)

Victor Fleming & others (1939)

The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (1939)Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck (1937)

John Ford (1940)

Gary Sinese (1992)

ADAPTATIONSare not copies but imitations in the sense established by Coleridge who stated in his work On Poesy or Art: “In an imitation a certain quantum of difference is essential ... and an indispensable condition and cause of the pleasure we derive from it, while in a copy it is a defect, contravening its name and purpose.” So we shouldn’t claim that the literary work is not found in a film since it has been adapted. It is not very clever to say that films are not books.

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CONTINUED...