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Words and Images on the Screen: Language, Literature, Moving Pictures
Words and Images on the Screen: Language, Literature, Moving Pictures
Edited by
Ágnes PethĘ
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Words and Images on the Screen: Language, Literature, Moving Pictures, Edited by Ágnes PethĘ This book first published 2008 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 12 Back Chapman Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2XX, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2008 by Ágnes PethĘ and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-84718-843-5, ISBN (13): 9781847188434
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Introduction ................................................................................................. 1 Words and Images in the Context of Moving Pictures Ágnes PethĘ Part I: LITERATURE INTO CINEMA (Adaptation as a cultural, historical and intermedial phenomenon.) 1. Imre Szíjártó....................................................................................... 16 Literary Adaptations in Post-Communist Eastern and Central European Cinema 2. Gábor Gelencsér ................................................................................. 28 Links. The Relationship of Film and Literature in Post-War Hungarian Cinematic Art 3. Katalin Turnacker............................................................................... 41 Intersections and Parallel Phenomena in the History of German Film and Literature 4. Judit Pieldner...................................................................................... 58 Medial Equivalences, Functional Analogies? The Rhetoric of Adaptation (Tom Jones, Orlando, The French Lieutenant’s Woman) 5. Hajnal Király ...................................................................................... 76 Making Meaning in Béla Tarr’s Adaptation Satan Tango 6. Ádám Dávid ....................................................................................... 89 Montage of Scents. Intermediality and “Intersensuality” in Patrick Süskind’s and Tom Tykwer’s Perfume 7. Laura Sava........................................................................................ 104 Adapting (to) the Letter: Patrice Chéreau’s Gabrielle 8. Zsuzsánna Kalafatics........................................................................ 119 A Version of a Cult or The Master and Margarita as TV Series Part II: WORD AND IMAGE EXPERIENCE IN MOVING PICTURES (Cases of intermediality from historical and theoretical perspectives.) 1. Melinda Blos-Jáni............................................................................. 132 Is Silence Hereditary? Written Words and Acoustic Events in a Contemporary Silent Film: Esteban Sapir’s La Antena (2007)
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2. Ágnes PethĘ...................................................................................... 159 The Screen is a Blank Page: Jean-Luc Godard’s Word and Image Plays 3. Lóránt StĘhr...................................................................................... 187 From White Page to White Light: Fassbinder and Self-Reflexion in the Art of Film 4. Andrea Virginás ............................................................................... 203 “The Texture of the Medium”: Letters and Colours as Images in Crime Movies 5. László Tarnay................................................................................... 213 Textuality Beyond the Word: A Cognitive Approach to Experimentalism in Film Making and Filmic Perception 6. András Müllner.....................................................