Description: List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction: The Theory and Practice of Adaptation 1 Robert Stam 1 Improvements and Reparations at Mansfield Park 53 Tim Watson 2 Keeping the Carcass in Motion: Adaptation and Transmutations of the National in The Last of the Mohicans 71 Jacquelyn Kilpatrick 3 The Discreet Charm of the Leisure Class: Terence Davies's The House of Mirth 86 Richard Porton 4 In Search of Adaptation: Proust and Film 100 Melissa Anderson 5 The Grapes of Wrath: Thematic Emphasis through Visual Style 111 Vivian C. Sobchack 6 Cape Fear and Trembling: Familial Dread 126 Kirsten Thompson 7 The Carnival of Repression: German Left-wing Politics and The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum 148 Alexandra Seibel 8 Serial Time: Bluebeard in Stepford 163 Bliss Cua Lim 9 Boyz N the Hood Chronotopes: Spike Lee, Richard Price, and the Changing Authorship of Clockers 191 Paula J. Massood 10 Defusing the English Patient 208 Patrick Deer 11 Carnivals and Goldfish: History and Crisis in the Butcher Boy 233 Jessica Scarlata 12 Passion or Heartburn? The Uses of Humor in Esquivel's and Arau's Like Water for Chocolate 252 Dianna C. Niebylski 13 Beloved: The Adaptation of an American Slave Narrative 272 Mia Mask 14 Oral Traditions, Literature, and Cinema in Africa 295 Mbye Cham 15 Memory and History in the Politics of Adaptation: Revisiting the Partition of India in Tamas 313 Ranjani Mazumdar 16 The Written Scene: Writers as Figures of Cinematic Redemption 331 Paul Arthur Index 343

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