Issue 16.1-2
Overview
Special Issue: Film/Literature
Published: January 1983
See the issue summary and contents below.
15 essays, totalling 224 pages
$15.00 CAD
This special double issue of Mosaic is guest-edited by University of Manitoba Distinguished Professor George Toles. Included are essays on the theory of film, film adaptation and a range of film genres. Also included are essays about filmmaker François Truffaut and pieces written by Truffaut himself. Films examined in the issue range from Angels With Dirty Faces to The Merchant of Venice, Casablanca to Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Actor, Role, Star: James Cagney in Angels With Dirty FacesJames Naremore | |
The Technology of Narrative: Notes on the Esthetics of Nonexistent FictionsSarah W. R. Smith | |
Thresholds of the Visible: The Death Scene of FilmGarrett Stewart | |
The Final Go-Around: Peckinpah's Wild Bunch at the End of the FrontierAllison Graham | |
Looking Homeward?in Vain: The Family in American FictionTag Gallagher | |
Seeing Triple: Cain, Chandler and Wilder on Double IndemnityAlan Spiegel | |
Everybody Comes to Roquentin's: La Naus?e and CasablancaSteven G. Kellman | |
Mad Love and a Sense of Play: "Reading" the Early Films of Fran?ois TruffautPeter Harcourt | |
Antoine et l'orphelineFran?ois Truffaut (Trans. Eugene P. Walz) | |
Antoine's First and Final AdventureEugene P. Walz | |
Shakespeare and Anti-Semitism: Two Television Versions of The Merchant of VeniceMarion D. Perret | |
Films Out of Books: Bergman, Visconti and MannDavid Glassco | |
Burying the Undead: The Use and Obsolescence of Count DraculaRobin Wood | |
Fashioning and Re-fashioning: Framing Narratives in the Novel and FilmLinda Dittmar | |
Ragtime and the Movies: The Aura of the DuplicableAnthony B. Dawson |