The Writer on Film

Introduction; Judith Buchanan PART I: CINEMA'S VERSIONS AND USES OF LITERACY LIVES 1. Authorship, Imagination and the Cinema; Laura Marcus 2. Gendered Authorship I: the Female Writer. Here is the Story of my Career.: the Woman Writer on Film; Sonia Haiduc 3. Gendered Authorship II: the Male Writer. Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: Screening Authorial Masculinity in Sylvia (2003) and The Edge of Love (2008); Sian Harris 4. Romantic Authorship. Romantic Genius on Screen: Jane Campion's Bright Star (2009) and Julien Temple's Pandaemonium (2000); Julian North 5. Authorship Iconized, Metonymized, Debunked. The Tables of Memory: Shakespeare, Cinema and the Writing Desk; Megan Murray-Pepper 6. Commercialized Authorship. Brit Lit Biopics, 1990-2010; Andrew Higson 7. Literary Biopics and Literary Biographies. Visions of Authorship: a Literary Biographer's Perspective; Geoffrey Wall PART II: CINEMA'S FICTIONAL AUTHORS AND AUTHORIAL PROXIES 8. Adaptation as Encoded Authorial Biography I. Biographical Wish-Fulfilment in the Hemingway Screen Adaptations; R. Barton Palmer 9. Adaptation as Encoded Authorial Biography II. Becoming Jane in Adaptations of Austen's Fiction; Deborah Cartmell 10. Authorial Proxies. Duplicated and Duplicitous Self-configurings in Kaufman's Adaptation (2002); Gennelle Smith 11. Configuring Authorial Absence. Writing the Endings of Cinema: Evocations of Authorial Absence in the Cinematic Paratext from The Tempest to the Book of Kells ; Richard Burt 12. Fictional Writers on Screen: Letter Writers. Deliveries of Absence: Epistolary Structures in Classical Cinema; Clara Rowland 13. Fictional Writers on Screen: Diarists. Far from Literature: Writing as Bare Act in Robert Bresson's Journal d'un curé de campagne (1951); Erica Sheen 14. Fictional Writers on Screen: Playwrights and Documentarists. Documentary Li(v)es: Writing Falsehoods, Righting Wrongs in von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others (2006); Judith Buchanan