BOOK: Theatrical Translation and Film Adaptation: A Practitioner's View

Most commentaries on translation have focused on narrative and poetry. Translation and film adaptation of theater have received little study. In filling that gap, this book gives center stage to theater and to theatrical translators. Phyllis Zatlin bases her observations and practical suggestions not only on previous published studies and her own experience as a translator to English from Spanish and French, but also on responses to questionnaires from theatrical translators in several countries who work in a variety of language pairs. The book also offers insights into such concerns as the translation of bilingual plays and the choice between subtitling and dubbing of film.

BOOK: Theater and Film: A Comparative Anthology

This is the first book in more than twenty-five years to examine the complex historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationship between theater and film, and the effect that each has had on the other's development.

Robert Knopf here assembles essays from performers, directors, writers, and critics that illuminate this ongoing inquiry. The book is divided into five parts--historical influence, comparisons and contrasts, writing, directing, and acting--with interludes by major artists whose work and words have shaped the development of theater and film. A comprehensive bibliography and filmography support further work in this area. The book contains contributions from Susan Sontag, Stanley Kauffmann, Sarah Bey-Cheng, Bertolt Brecht, Ingmar Bergman, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Julia Taymor, Judi Dench, Sam Waterston, Orson Welles, Antonin Artaud, and Milos Forman, among others.

BOOK: Hemingway and His Conspirators: Hollywood, Scribners, and the Making of American Celebrity Culture

Paying close attention to the emergent mass marketplace of the 1920s and early 1930s, Hemingway and His Conspirators goes beyond other books to show how Hemingway and his work were packaged, marketed, and sold in the early years of his career. Max Perkins, the editor known to us for his prowess in cultivating writers and manuscripts, is here revealed as a brilliant marketer who weighed the public effects of certain word choice, arranged for magazine serialization and promotion of Hemingway's novels, and - crucially - distributed countless photographs of the author in order to expand the boundaries of his audience. Rich in detail and anecdote, Hemingway and His Conspirators profiles the nascent media age and its personalities - among them F. Scott Fitzgerald, Helen Hayes, Sinclair Lewis, David O. Selznick, and Gary Cooper. It shows how and why Hemingway moved from the publisher Boni and Liveright (described as "the Jazz Age in microcosm, with all its extremes of hysteria and of cynicism") to Charles Scribner's Sons, generally known throughout the industry as "ultraconservative." It reveals what Scribners and its influential editor did well for Hemingway and what they may have done less well. Perhaps most important, it shows how Paramount Pictures' big screen adaptation of A Farewell to Arms catapulted the author to icon status. Set in the 1920s, Hemingway and His Conspirators tells a backstage story of the tangle of literature, publishing, and motion pictures in the formative years of the modern mass market we take for granted today. Those formative years changed the meaning of the word "celebrity" forever.

BOOK: Adaptations: From Text to Screen Screen to Text

What happens when Jane Austen's Emma becomes the big screen's Clueless? How does Batman the comic book translate into a cartoon, television show, and film? With contributions from some of the finest film scholars in the world, Adaptations looks at what happens to popular texts when they are transformed into an entirely different medium, including novel and comic book to screen and an innovative look at screen to novel. Wide-ranging and innovative in its approach, Adaptations is a trenchant look at how a story changes--successfully or not--in all its mediums: novel, film, comic book, cartoon, and television. (from the publisher)

BOOK: Art of Adaptation: Turning Fact and Fiction into Film

Adaptations have long been a mainstay of Hollywood and the television networks. Indeed, most Academy Award- and Emmy Award-winning films have been adaptations of novels, plays, or true-life stories. Linda Seger, author of two acclaimed books on scriptwriting, now offers a comprehensive handbook for screenwriters, producers, and directors who want to successfully transform fictional or factual material into film. Seger tells how to analyze source material to understand why some of it resists adaptation.
She then gives practical methods for translating story, characters, themes, and style into film. A final section details essential information on how to adapt material and how to protect oneself legally. (From the Publisher )