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GUILTY PLEASURES Vol. 1. Recommended readings Nov 1, 2009 4657
Based on a truly gay story: forty years ago this summer, two momentous events happened just 100 miles apart, but they might as well have been on different planets. Now the Brokeback Mountain filmmakers have adapted Elliot Tibet's memoir, Taking Woodstock, and imbued Woodstock with the spirit of Stonewall in a controversial new film--and it's a comedy. Colman, David Sep 1, 2009 1712
"White fear" and the studio system: a re-evaluation of Hansberry's original screenplay of A Raisin in the Sun. Ingle, Zachary Critical essay Jul 1, 2009 4563
John Schlesinger's far from the Madding Crowd: a reassessment. Sasaki, Toru Critical essay Jul 1, 2009 3400
Lost in translation: on Frank Miller's the Spirit. Wilson, Brian Critical essay Jun 22, 2009 1435
"Outing" Edward, outfitting Marlowe: Derek Jarman's film of Edward II. Cardullo, Bert Critical essay Apr 1, 2009 5103
On the road: reclaiming Korol Lir. Critical essay Apr 1, 2009 5595
Controlling and controlled: Ophelia and the Ghost as defined by music in Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet. Heine, Erik Critical essay Apr 1, 2009 6742
"A dog, a rat, ... a cat to scratch a man to death!": Olivier's Richard III and popular cultures. Malone, Toby Critical essay Apr 1, 2009 6732
Macbeth's wicked women: sexualized evil in Geoffrey Wright's Macbeth. Rooks, Amanda Kane Critical essay Apr 1, 2009 4689
Criticism, crisis, and adaptation. Johnson, David T. Essay Jan 1, 2009 1567
Kaos, Pirandello and the mother: questions of Identity in the Tavianis Sicily. Cadel, Francesca Critical essay Dec 22, 2008 7356
The Little Mermaid: icon and disneyfication. Mortensen, Finn Hauberg Critical essay Dec 22, 2008 6245
Projection runway: fashion designer Tom Ford segues into celluloid with a daring film project. Voss, Brandon Dec 16, 2008 386
Alternative inheritances: re-thinking what adaptation might mean in Francois Ozon's Le Temps qui reste [Time to Leave]. Handyside, Fiona Critical essay Oct 1, 2008 4173
Neo-Romantic Landscapes: pictorial aesthetics in Powell and Pressburger's Gone to Earth. Hockenhull, Stella Critical essay Oct 1, 2008 3783
(In)fidelity criticism and the sexual politics of adaptation. Rizzo, Sergio Critical essay Oct 1, 2008 7547
Healing by the community spirit: it's the story of the largest movement the world has ever seen. A movement with no charismatic leader; that follows no unifying ideology; and which politicians, the public and the media don't recognise. But it has the potential to heal the Earth. Alexandra de Blas examines Blessed Unrest, a book by Paul Hawken, soon to start production as a ground-breaking film. de Blas, Alexandra Oct 1, 2008 1152
The Hollywood novel at the end of the twentieth century. Ames, Christopher Critical essay Jul 1, 2008 3831
Riding in cars with boys: reconsidering smooth talk. Dickinson, Peter Critical essay Jul 1, 2008 6975
Egoyan's film adaptation of Banks's The Sweet Hereafter: "The Pied Piper" as trauma narrative and mise-en-abyme. Landwehr, Margarete Johanna Critical essay Jul 1, 2008 3818
The end of the affair. Douthat, Ross Critical essay Jun 30, 2008 943
No exit in Texas. Brown, Royal Jun 22, 2008 2036
Comic dread in the modern frontier. Sharrett, Christopher Jun 22, 2008 2365
"Darkness rumbling": Kozintsev's Karol Lier and the visual acoustics of nothing. Catania, Saviour Critical essay Apr 1, 2008 4023
Tracking the sounds of Franco Zeffirelli's The Taming of the Shrew. Kranz, David L. Critical essay Apr 1, 2008 9458
Stoppard's space men: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern on film. Nardo, Anna K. Critical essay Apr 1, 2008 4078
Dressing the girl / playing the boy: Twelfth Night learns soccer on the set of She's The Man. Pittman, L. Monique Critical essay Apr 1, 2008 7647
"Closed in a dead man's tomb": Juliet, space, and the body in Franco Zeffirelli's and Baz Luhrmann's films of Romeo and Juliet. Scott, Lindsey Critical essay Apr 1, 2008 4616
All Night Long: jazzing around with Othello. Skrebels, Paul Critical essay Apr 1, 2008 4741
"An excellent short cut to Shakespeare on film". Vela, Richard Critical essay Apr 1, 2008 1458
Horton Hears a Who! Brief article Mar 22, 2008 107
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Brief article Mar 22, 2008 79
Sexo, politica y fe: aproximacion a cronica de una muerte anunciada y la manana de sangre. Chang, Luisa Shu-Ying Critical essay Jan 1, 2008 9750
Movies from books. Brief article Jan 1, 2008 72
Materializing adaptation theory: the adaptation industry. Murray, Simone Essay Jan 1, 2008 11175
Adaptations without sources: the Adventures of Robin Hood. Leitch, Thomas Critical essay Jan 1, 2008 6144
The mirror didn't crack: costume drama & Gothic horror in Sally Potter's Orlando. Mayer, Sophie Critical essay Jan 1, 2008 3780
The passion translated: literary and cinematic rhetoric in Pride and Prejudice (2005). Grandi, Roberta Critical essay Jan 1, 2008 4240
Using Riffaterre to rehabilitate The Lover. Brownlie, Siobhan Critical essay Jan 1, 2008 5533
'I am nobody': contemporary subjectivity and new surveillance technologies. Cooper, Simon Critical essay Dec 1, 2007 1345
"Documentary as adaptation: an intertextual analysis of an Injury to One". Metz, Walter C. Critical essay Oct 1, 2007 3707
Making the cut: documentary work in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath. Smith, John R. Critical essay Oct 1, 2007 3843
Once, he was a manly man to whose patriotic valor every little boy aspired. Brief article Sep 24, 2007 146
The Seeker: The Dark is Rising. Brief article Sep 22, 2007 55
Movies from Books. Brief article Sep 1, 2007 126
"Adapting Genesis". Metz, Walter C. Report Jul 1, 2007 5678
Acts of suppression: Adapting Le Rouge et le Noir. Scott, Maria Critical essay Jul 1, 2007 3809
Graham Baker's Beowulf: intersections between high and low culture. Forni, Kathleen Critical essay Jul 1, 2007 3790
Adapting The Revengers Tragedy. Cook, Patrick J. Apr 1, 2007 3752
King Lear as western elegy. Griggs, Yvonne Apr 1, 2007 4686
Michael Radford's The Merchant of Venice and the vexed question of performance. Magnus, Laury Critical essay Apr 1, 2007 8902
Filming non-space: the vanishing point and the face in Brook's King Lear. Ryle, Simon J. Critical essay Apr 1, 2007 5641
The monstrosity of the gaze: critical problems with a film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. Harl, Allison Mar 22, 2007 4180
Doing it their way: authors producing films. Dodson, Angela P. Brief article Mar 1, 2007 281
The kindest cut of all: adapting Thomas Harris's Hannibal. Schmid, David Critical essay Jan 1, 2007 4392
"The book belongs to all of us": Gone With the Wind as postcultural product. Cronin, Jan Critical essay Jan 1, 2007 5135
What Would Jane Cut? Fowler, Karen Joy Essay Jan 1, 2007 2316
The strange pleasure of The Leopard Man: gender, genre and authorship in a Val Lewton thriller. Preston, Scott Jan 1, 2007 8120
Readers recommend their favorite books. Jan 1, 2007 1384
Directors on adaptation: a conversation with Richard Linklater. Johnson, David T. Interview Jan 1, 2007 2703
"Postmodern mirrors". Hoagwood, Terence Critical essay Oct 1, 2006 4127
Reel Italian: melodrama, Magnani, and alternative subjects in The Rose Tattoo. McDaniel, L. Bailey Critical essay Oct 1, 2006 7871
"Who am I in this story?": on the film adaptations of Max Ophuls. Metz, Walter C. Critical essay Oct 1, 2006 5519
The problem body politic, or "these hands have a mind all their own!": figuring disability in the horror film adaptations of Renard's Les mains d'Orlac. Olney, Ian Critical essay Oct 1, 2006 6483
Bride and Prejudice: a Bollywood comedy of manners. Wilson, Cheryl A. Oct 1, 2006 6300
"Where is that worthless dreamer?" Bottom's fantastic redemption in Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Riga, Frank P. Character overview Sep 22, 2006 6084
Summer of adaptations. Johnson, David T. Jul 1, 2006 1032
Tess, Jude, and the problem of adapting Hardy. Strong, Jeremy Cover story Jul 1, 2006 5748
Nomi returns! Brief article Jun 20, 2006 43
Dialogue in Shakespearean offshoots. Nardo, Anna K. Apr 1, 2006 4426
Empowered by madness: Ophelia in the films of Kozintsev, Zeffirelli, and Branagh. Teker, Gulsen Sayin Critical essay Apr 1, 2006 4006
"The promised end" of cinema: portraits of cinematic apocalypse in 21st century Shakespearean cinema. Cooke-Jess, Carolyn Apr 1, 2006 4693
The movie The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Walden) has spawned a small library. Brief Article Jan 1, 2006 126
"I am a wild beast": Patricia Rozema's forward Fanny. Shea, Alison Jan 1, 2006 2877
In defense of Patricia Rozema's Mansfield Park. Monaghan, David Jan 1, 2006 2452
From page to screen: dancing to the altar in recent film adaptations of Jane Austen's novels. Stovel, Nora Foster Jan 1, 2006 5837
Old tosh and balderdash: earnest critics keep The Da Vinci Code alive. Faiz, Andrew Oct 1, 2005 802
Reader comments from www.advocate.com. Brief Article Mar 29, 2005 170
Message from the president. Ray, Joan Klingel Editorial Jan 1, 2005 367
Incarnating Jane Austen: the role of sound in the recent film adaptations. Hudelet, Ariane Jan 1, 2005 4258
Cutting Colin: as A Home at the End of the World hits the screen, the filmmakers talk about slimming down the novel--and axing Colin Farrell's nude scene. Giltz, Michael Interview Aug 17, 2004 631
Clergy sex abuse, the movie: coming soon to a small screen near you. Grennan Gary, Heather Brief Article May 1, 2004 154
JR Lankford's. Brief Article May 1, 2004 33
Longing for Titus' big screen debut. Strong, David Mar 22, 2004 2968
The quintessential New Yorker and global citizen: an interview with Spike Lee. Massood, Paula J. Interview Jun 22, 2003 3401
Doyle's law: an interview with David Benioff. Massood, Paula J. Interview Jun 22, 2003 3322
The Age of Innocence: Martin Scorsese, 1993. Thomas, Deborah Critical Essay Jun 22, 2003 10597
From the novel to the screen: three directors talk about the perils and pleasures of film adaptation. Amsden, Cynthia Jun 1, 2003 1411
How Greene is our worldview? The fractured souls that inhabit Graham Greene's fiction offer timely lessons about the dangers of idealistic zealotry. (culture in context). McCormick, Patrick May 1, 2003 1335
The golden Hours: with Meryl Streep as a lesbian, Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf, and Julianne Moore kissing Toni Colette, The Hours would seem to be the gayest movie ever nominated for nine Oscars. But the actresses and filmmakers argue that transcending such labels is exactly what has made the film so successful. (The Hollywood Issue). Giltz, Michael Cover Story Mar 18, 2003 3326
Musicals and the gay gene. (last word). Rotello, Gabriel Column Mar 18, 2003 684
Michael Cunningham after Hours. (Artist's Profile). Interview Mar 1, 2003 1567
Putting it together: Matt Wolf charts the road traveled to get Austen actors to the table. Wolf, Matt Jan 1, 2003 2208
Past classics, summer rubbish. (Reel World). Sharrett, Christopher Sep 1, 2002 1153
Role reversal: Hollywood writers take their act from print to screen and vice versa. Kennedy, Lisa Jul 1, 2002 2182
Oscar winners Denzel and Halle take books to the movies. (Film). Brief Article May 1, 2002 336
Cribbing Cleopatra, or How to Turn an Acclaimed Novel Into a Bad TV Movie. (Cinema Studies). Brief Article Mar 22, 2002 165
Morphing Best-Sellers Into Oscars. Brief Article May 1, 2001 778
Alfred Hitchcock's Mary Rose: An Old Master's Unheard Cri de Coeur. McBride, Joseph Mar 22, 2001 5415

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