Literature and film in the historical dimension: selected papers from the Fifteenth Annual Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film, Volume 1990

346 Pages·1994·0.81 MB·English

by  John D. Simons

Literature and Film in the Historical
Dimension : Selected Papers From the
title:
Fifteenth Annual Florida State University
Conference On Literature and Film
author: Simons, John D.
publisher: University Press of Florida
isbn10 | asin: 0813012856
print isbn13: 9780813012858
ebook isbn13: 9780813020372
language: English
Literature and history--Congresses, History
in literature--Congresses, Motion pictures
subject
and history--Congresses, Historical films--
History and criticism--Congresses.
publication date: 1994
lcc: PN50.F57 1990eb
ddc: 791.43/658
Literature and history--Congresses, History
in literature--Congresses, Motion pictures
subject:
and history--Congresses, Historical films--
History and criticism--Congresses.
Literature and Film in the Historical Dimension
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Papers appearing in this series are published under the auspices of the
Florida State University Comparative Literature and Film Circle, with
support from the Florida State University College of Arts and
Sciences.
Editorial Committee
John Simons (Chair), Winnifred R. Adolph, Bonnie Braendlin, Hans
P.
Braendlin, Richard Chapple, Elaine Cancalon, Leon Golden, JoAnn
James, Antoine Spacagna, Fred L. Standley, and Peter H. Stowell
Advisory Board
Patrick Brady, Rice University
John Cawelti, University of Kentucky
Gerald Duchovnay, East Texas State University
Robert Eberwein, Oakland University
John Fuegi, University of Maryland
Frederick Garber, SUNY-Binghamton
Gerald Gillespie, Stanford University
Molly Haskell, New York City
Peter Lehman, University of Arizona
Vincent B. Leitch, Purdue University
William Luhr, Saint Peter's College
Patricia Mellencamp, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Robert Scholes, Brown University
Fred Silva, SUNY-Albany
J. L. Styan, Northwestern University
Jay Telotte, Georgia Institute of Technology
Edward Wasiolek, University of Chicago
Janice Welsch, Western Illinois University

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Literature and Film in the Historical Dimension
Selected Papers from the Fifteenth Annual Florida State
University Conference on Literature and Film
Edited by John D. Simons
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA
GAINESVILLE
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Copyright 1994 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film (15th : 1990)
Literature and film in the historical dimension : selected papers from the
Fifteenth Annual Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film
/ edited by John D. Simons.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8130-1285-6 (alk. paper)
1. Literature and historyCongresses. 2. History in literature
Congresses. 3. Motion pictures and historyCongresses. 4. Historical
filmsHistory and criticismCongresses. I. Simons, John D. II. Title.
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Contents
1 1
Introduction: Storytelling as a Cognitive Instrument
John D. Simons, Florida State University
2 13
Rewriting the Risorgimento in Sicily: Vincenzo Consolo's
Il Sorriso Dell'Ignoto Marinaio
T. O'Neill, University of Melbourne
3 33
From Printed Page to Screen: "The Voyage of Charles
Darwin"
Julie S. Gibert, Canisius College
4 47
South Africa from Text to Film: Cry Freedom and A Dry
White Season
Victoria Carchidi, Emory and Henry College
5 63
Film as Historical Text: Danton
Elaine McAllister, Kennesaw State College
6 75
The Reigns of Power: Foucault, Feminism, and Dangerous
Liaisons
Majda K. Anderson, University of Southern California
7 89
The Subject in/of History: Hiroshima Mon Amour
Nancy Lane, University of South Carolina

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8 101
Lacan and Postmodernism in Brautigan's Dreaming of
Babylon
Mark Hedborn, Northern Illinois University
9 111
Dialectic of Transvaluation in Edith Wharton's The House
of Mirth
Rita Di Giuseppe, Universita di Verona
10 125
The Yellow River Turning Blue, The Yellow River
Turning Red: He Shang and the "Cultural Craze"
Movement
Balance T. P. Chow, Rollins College
11 139
Ishmael Reed's Postmodern Revolt
Erik D. Curren, University of California, Irvine
12 149
Adaptation, History, and Textual Suppression: Literary
Sources of Hitchcock's Sabotage
Thomas Hemmeter, Beaver College
13 163
What Movie are we Watching Here? Cinematic Quotation
in Recent Hollywood Films
Linda Anderson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
14 173
The Cinematic Adaptation: The Case of Los Santos
Inocentes
Patricia Santoro, Curry College