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The fantastic made visible : essays on the adaptation of science fiction and fantasy from page to screen / Edited by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell and Ace G. Pilkington

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Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]
Physical Description
viii, 241 pages ; 23 cm
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Kapell, Matthew and Pilkington, Ace G.

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Contents
Introduction: science fiction and fantasy conquer the world / Ace G. Pilkington -- One destination, many journeys: Jules Verne's center of the earth on screen / Brian Taves -- From selenite suicide to bonestell backdrops: Robert A. Heinlein on the course to destination moon / Rafeeq O. McGiveron -- Forbidden planet: aliens, monsters and fictions of nuclear disaster / Ace G. Pilkington -- A daughter, a mother and a mirror: "Snow White" and hollywood / Kate Wolford -- Updating form, content and culture: the strange case of three Snow White films / Luis Guadaøo -- "Look, you fools, you're in danger!" cultural snapshots in four iterations of Invasion of the body snatchers / Kelley Crowley -- Damn dirty dames: dissecting difference in Planet of the apes / Dean Conrad and Lynne Magowan -- The amplification and avoidance of homosexual love in the translation of Tolkien's work from books to films / Roger Kaufman -- Media and hyperreality in the film adaptations of the Suzanne Collins' Hunger games trilogy / Mollie Gagnon -- The Russian literary tradition goes Hollywood: night watch, day watch and substitution of narrative experientiality / Olga A. Pilkington -- From (pseudo)encyclopedic fiction to America's first superhero: Abraham Lincoln: vampire hunter / Nils Bothmann -- From screen to shining screen: the Wizard of Oz in the age of mechanical reproduction / Annah E. Mackenzie -- Ancient myths, modern movie: Harry Potter in our minds and on the screen / Cathy Leogrande -- Racebending: race, adaptation and the films I, robot and I am legend / William Hart -- Conclusion: adaptation or translation? / Matthew Wilhelm Kapell.
Summary
"From the earliest adaptations of Jules Verne, Robert A. Heinlein, and Shakespeare to today's films based on The Hobbit, Planet of the Apes, and The Hunger Games this is the most complete collection of its kind currently available. Written in clear, jargon-free English, this book has a wide range of approaches and films from around the world"--
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9780786496198 (softcover : alk. paper)
0786496193 (softcover : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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