From Fidelity to History

Zusatztext

<p> Scholarly approaches to the relationship between literature and film, ranging from the traditional focus upon fidelity to more recent issues of intertextuality, all contain a significant blind spot: a lack of theoretical and methodological attention to adaptation as an historical and transnational phenomenon. This book argues for a historically informed approach to American popular culture that reconfigures the classically defined adaptation phenomenon as a form of transnational reception. Focusing on several case studies including the films<em>Sense and Sensibility</em> (1995) and<em>The Portrait of a Lady</em> (1997), and the classics<em>The Third Man</em> (1949) and<em>The Bridge on the River Kwai</em> (1957)the author demonstrates the ways adapted literary works function as social and cultural events in history and how these become important sites of cultural negotiation and struggle.</p>

Autorenportrait

<p><strong>Anne-Marie Scholz</strong> holds a teaching affiliation with the University of Bremen, Germany and is currently an Adjunct Professor of American Studies at the University of Konstanz. She is also a freelance language teacher and translator. She has published in<em>The European Journal of American Studies, Film and History, Amerikastudien/American Studies</em>, and<em>German History</em> and has taught at the Universities of Bonn, Hamburg, Tübingen, Bremen, and the University of California, Irvine.</p>

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