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"Webs of significance": Intertextual and cultural historical approaches to Cold War American film adaptations /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Webs of significance": Intertextual and cultural historical approaches to Cold War American film adaptations // Walter Carl Metz.
Author:	Metz, Walter Carl,
Description:	1 electronic resource (341 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 58-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International58-07A.
Subject:	Comparative literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9705914
ISBN:	9780591128482

"Webs of significance": Intertextual and cultural historical approaches to Cold War American film adaptations /
Metz, Walter Carl,

"Webs of significance": Intertextual and cultural historical approaches to Cold War American film adaptations /Walter Carl Metz. - 1 electronic resource (341 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 58-07, Section: A.

Traditionally, studies of film adaptation operate under formalist assumptions: critics regard the film and its source as discrete narrative entities, each with its own aesthetic principles of construction. This formalist stance has generally led critics to either (1) reject the film adaptation as an inferior attempt to duplicate the novel or (2) argue against the process of adaptation altogether, positioning film as a worthy art form unto itself. In order to correct the excesses of these approaches, I begin by replacing the concept of adaptation with a theory of intertextuality, studying the relationship between novels and films as they relate to the inherent interactions between all textual forms. Furthermore, the traditional approaches to adaptation seldom emphasize what new meanings are enabled by the adaptive process itself. In this dissertation, I bring the methodology of the New Historicism to bear on adaptation, arguing that the adaptive process illuminates the political contestations of an era, contestations which emerge as the novel undergoes the process of conversion into cinematic form. I choose the adaptations of the early Cold War American cinema (1948-1963) as a testing ground for this intertextual and cultural historical approach to adaptation. The research question prompting this study is, How can an intertextual approach probing the adaptational interface between novels and films contribute to our understanding of the contradictions of a contextual moment such as early Cold War America? Following Robert Corber's In the Name of National Security, I investigate how the period's conflation of discourses of domestic morality and national security provides a working definition of Cold War ideology. The dissertation begins by studying adaptations which highlight major political events: the bombing of Hiroshima and the Korean War. Then, I move to study how Cold War adaptations negotiate gender political issues. The film adaptations studied in this dissertation are: Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953) and Human Desire (1954), Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1955), Martin Ritt's The Sound and the Fury (1959), Delmer Daves' The Hanging Tree (1959), and John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (1962).

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ISBN: 9780591128482Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Comparative literature.

"Webs of significance": Intertextual and cultural historical approaches to Cold War American film adaptations /
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