Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Film and literature in the crosscurrents of history -- 1.The prehistory of film and literature -- 2.Filming literature: From early film and literature to classical form, 1895--1925 -- 3.Testing and expanding the value of film and literature, 1915--1940 -- 4.Pens, pulp, and the crisis of the word, 1940--1960 -- 5.Academic cinema and international spectacles, 1960--1980 -- 6.Books and movies as multimedia: Into the new millennium -- pt. 2 Major documents and debates -- 2.1.Adaptation studies -- 7.Adaptation, Or The Cinema As Digest / Andre Bazin -- 8.Adaptation / Dudley Andrew -- 9.Beyond Fidelity: The Dialogics Of Adaptation / Robert Stam -- 10.Adaptation, Translation, Critique / Lawrence Venuti -- 11.Twelve Fallacies In Contemporary Adaptation Theory / Thomas Leitch -- 2.2.Adaptation in history -- 12.Progress And Endowment / Vachel Lindsay -- 13.Novel, Short Story, Drama: The Conditions For Influence / Kristin Thompson --

Contents note continued: 14.The Means Of Photoplay / Hugo Munsterberg -- 15.Dickens, Griffith, And The Film Today / Sergei Eisenstein -- 16.The Work Of Art In The Age Of Its Technological Reproducibility / Walter Benjamin -- 17.Literary Forces Encouraging The Use Of Black Writers / Mark A. Reid -- 18.Literature On The Small Screen: Television Adaptations / Sarah Cardwell -- 2.3.Authors and auteurs -- 19.The Birth Of A New Avant-Garde: La Camera-Stylo / Alexandre Astruc -- 20.The Auteurtheory / Peter Wollen -- 21.The Screenplay An D Authorship In Adaptation / Jack Boozer -- 2.4.Novels, theater, poetry, and non-fiction -- 22.Theater And Cinema / Andre Bazin -- 23.Acting: Stage Vs. Screen / Leo Braudy -- 24.The Limits Of The Novel And The Limits Of The Film / George Bluestone -- 25.Readership And Spectatorship / Judith Mayne -- 26.The Lyrical Film / P. Adams Sitney -- 27.The Essay Film: On Thoughts Occasioned By ... Michel De Montaigne And Chris Marker / Timothy Corrigan --

Contents note continued: 2.5.Major writers/major films: On William Shakespeare's Macbeth and Jane Austen's Emma -- 28."When Every Noise Appalls Me": Sound And Fear In Macbeth And Akira Kurosawa's Throne Of Blood / Evelyn Tribble -- 29.Out Damned Scot: Dislocating Macbeth In Transnational Film And Media Cu Lture / Courtney Lehmann -- 30.Emma, Interrupted: Speaking Jane Austen In Fiction And Film / Hilary Schor -- 31.Adapting Jane Austen: The Surprising Fidelity Of Clueless / William Galperin -- 2.6.Beyond film and literary texts -- 32.Materializing Adaptation Theory: The Adaptation Industry / Simone Murray -- 33."How? (Audiences)" / Linda Hutcheon -- 34.Searching Forthe Origami: The Matrix And Transmedia Storytelling / Henry Jenkins -- pt. 3 Writing about film and literature: Critical terms, borders, and strategies -- 35.Analytical Terms And Categories -- 36.Major topics in adaptation studies -- 37.Writing about film and/versus literature.