German Film and Literature
Adaptations and Transformations
Edited by Eric Rentschler
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Book Presentation:
First Published in 1986. This collection of essays by an international team of scholars is the first sustained investigation in any language of the historical interactions between German film and literature. It is a book about adaptations and transformations, about why filmmakers adapt certain material at certain times. The major impetus at work is the desire to expand the field of adaptation study to include sociological, theoretical and historical dimensions, and to bring a livelier regard for intertextuality to the studies of German film and literature. It is concerned with the ways in which filmmakers in Germany- from Pabst and von Sternberg to Fassbinder, Herzog and Sanders-Brahms- have engaged and been engaged by, literary history.
About the Author:
Eric Rentschler is Associate Professor of German and Director of FilmStudies at the University of California, Irvine.
See the publisher website: Routledge
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