The passage from novel to film is often a difficult one. When it comes to feminist fiction, the problem becomes acute because the ideology of Hollywood combined with that of a male director find it hard to accommodate such a vision. Taking as an example Sara Paretsky’s crime fiction series, with its private detective heroine V.I. Warshawski, and Jeff Kanew’s adaptation for the Disney studios, the article attempts to show how the subversive elements of the novels are weakened in the film and the unconventional heroine finds herself in the eternal roles of seductress and mother, which she is not in the fiction. The body becomes object (for the male gazer), the woman is minimized in her enterprises through ridicule or cheap, sometimes gross, c...
Examining the significance of women’s work in popular film genres, Genre, Authorship and Contemporar...
© 2017 Dr Patricia Di RisioThis study identifies an interplay between gender and genre in a 1990s Ho...
Hollywood has never been eager to make movies about the American working class. In the few films tha...
The passage from novel to film is often a difficult one. When it comes to feminist fiction, the prob...
The following article deals with the representation of Hollywood as a dystopian place, for women in ...
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” opens Leo Tolstoy’s...
Book-film adaptation is approached both from the point of view of relative artistic merit and commer...
Moving prose to the screen is not a simple operation of transforming words into images and sounds. T...
The paper addresses the issue of discrimination against women in the world of cinema. The author exa...
This dissertation examines the ways blockbuster Hollywood genre cinema constructs images of contempo...
Writings and art examining feature films thought to represent feminist values, the evolution of fema...
This dissertation examines the ways blockbuster Hollywood genre cinema constructs images of contempo...
This essay explores the notions of narrative fiction, their mediation through the adaptation of lite...
443 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982.This thesis discusses the var...
Abstract Between the elite intellectual culture of high modernist literary experimentation and the l...
Examining the significance of women’s work in popular film genres, Genre, Authorship and Contemporar...
© 2017 Dr Patricia Di RisioThis study identifies an interplay between gender and genre in a 1990s Ho...
Hollywood has never been eager to make movies about the American working class. In the few films tha...
The passage from novel to film is often a difficult one. When it comes to feminist fiction, the prob...
The following article deals with the representation of Hollywood as a dystopian place, for women in ...
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” opens Leo Tolstoy’s...
Book-film adaptation is approached both from the point of view of relative artistic merit and commer...
Moving prose to the screen is not a simple operation of transforming words into images and sounds. T...
The paper addresses the issue of discrimination against women in the world of cinema. The author exa...
This dissertation examines the ways blockbuster Hollywood genre cinema constructs images of contempo...
Writings and art examining feature films thought to represent feminist values, the evolution of fema...
This dissertation examines the ways blockbuster Hollywood genre cinema constructs images of contempo...
This essay explores the notions of narrative fiction, their mediation through the adaptation of lite...
443 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982.This thesis discusses the var...
Abstract Between the elite intellectual culture of high modernist literary experimentation and the l...
Examining the significance of women’s work in popular film genres, Genre, Authorship and Contemporar...
© 2017 Dr Patricia Di RisioThis study identifies an interplay between gender and genre in a 1990s Ho...
Hollywood has never been eager to make movies about the American working class. In the few films tha...