Processes of Transposition
German Literature and Film
Published on 1. January 2007
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-90-420-2284-3 (ISBN)
Description
The essays collected in this book focus on the multi-faceted relationship between German/Austrian literature and the cinema screen. Scholars from Ireland, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Portugal, USA and Canada present critical readings of a wide range of transpositions of German-language texts to film, while also considering the impact of cinema on German literature, exploring intertextualities as well as intermedialities. The forum of discussion thus created encompasses cinematic narratives based on Goethe's Faust, Kleist's Marquise of O..., Kubrick's film version of Schnitzler's Dream Story and Caroline Link's Oscar-winning adaptation of Stefanie Zweig's novel Nowhere in Africa. The wide-ranging analyses of the complex interaction between literature and film presented here focus on literary works by Anna Seghers, Hans-Magnus Enzensberger, Nicola Rhon, Guenter Grass, Heinrich Boell, Elfriede Jelinek, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Erich Hackl, Thomas Brussig, Sven Regener, Frank Goosen and Robert Schneider, as well as on adaptations by filmmakers such as Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Max Mack, Josef von Sternberg, Max W. Kimmich, Fred Zinnemann, Paul Wegener, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schloendorff, Hansjuergen Pohland, Hendrik Handloegten, Michael Haneke, Christoph Stark, Karin Brandauer, Joseph Vilsmaier, Leander Haussmann and Doris Doerrie.
Reviews / Votes
"...these essays provide insight into intermedial interactions and transpositions [...] another helpful resource to the growing body of recent edited volumes in Germanic Studies that contain case studies of filmic genres or processes..." - in: Germanistik in Ireland, Vol. 3 (2008)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
735 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-2284-3 (9789042022843)
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Content
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Christiane SCHOENFELD: Introduction
Osman DURRANI: Filmed Fausts: Cardboard Cut-Outs or Blueprints of the Soul?
Ricarda SCHMIDT: The Swan and the Moped. Shifts in the Presentation of Violence from Kleist's "Die Marquise von O..." to Christoph Stark's Julietta
Siobhan DONOVAN: "Inspired by Schnitzler's Traumnovelle": The Intersemiotic Representation of Figural Consciousness in Eyes Wide Shut
Hugh RIDLEY: Reflections on the Literary Antecedents of Murnau's Tabu
Gerald BAER: Perceptions of the Self as the Other: Double-Visions in Literature and Film
Gilbert CARR: "Mit einem kleinen Ruck, wie beim Kinematographen". From the Unmaking of Professor Unrat to an Unmade Der blaue Engel
Yahya ELSAGHE: German Film Adaptations of Jewish Characters in Thomas Mann
Birgit MAIER-KATKIN: Literary and Cinematographic Reflections on the Human Condition by Anna Seghers and Fred Zinnemann
Eoin BOURKE: Two Foxes of Glenarvon
Thomas MARTINEC: Perspective and Reality: Cinematic Transformation of the Narrative Perspective in Schloendorff 's Die Blechtrommel
Carrie SMITH-PREI: "Their Adam's Apple Put Them on Screen": Hansjuergen Pohland's Cat and Mouse and the Narrative of the Male Body
Gisela HOLFTER: From Bestseller to Failure? Heinrich Boell's Irisches Tagebuch (Irish Journal) to Irland und seine Kinder (Children of Eire)
Jan ROEHNERT: A German Poet at the Movies: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
Alasdair KING: "Literatur und Linse": Enzensberger Goes to the Movies
Muriel CORMICAN: Thomas Brussig's Ostalgie in Print and on Celluloid
Claudia GREMLER: "But Somehow it Was Only Television": West German Narratives of the Fall of the Wall in Recent Novels and their Screen Adaptations
Juliet WIGMORE: Sex, Violence and Schubert. Michael Haneke's La Pianiste and Elfriede Jelinek's Die Klavierspielerin
Susan TEBBUTT: Intermediality and the Intercultural Dimension in Karin Brandauer's Film Sidonie based on Erich Hackl's Abschied von Sidonie
Markus Oliver SPITZ: Robert Schneider's Novel Schlafes Bruder in the Light of its Screen Version by Joseph Vilsmaier
Paul M. MALONE: Transposition or Translation? Fiction to Film in Doris Doerrie's Nobody Loves Me and Am I Beautiful?
Peter M. MCISAAC: Taking Doris Doerrie Seriously: Literature, Film, Gender
Patrice DJOUFACK: Adaptation as a Process of Interpretation: Nowhere in Africa - From Stefanie Zweig to Caroline Link
Rod STONEMAN: Alexander Kluge: Utopian Cinema
Acknowledgements
Christiane SCHOENFELD: Introduction
Osman DURRANI: Filmed Fausts: Cardboard Cut-Outs or Blueprints of the Soul?
Ricarda SCHMIDT: The Swan and the Moped. Shifts in the Presentation of Violence from Kleist's "Die Marquise von O..." to Christoph Stark's Julietta
Siobhan DONOVAN: "Inspired by Schnitzler's Traumnovelle": The Intersemiotic Representation of Figural Consciousness in Eyes Wide Shut
Hugh RIDLEY: Reflections on the Literary Antecedents of Murnau's Tabu
Gerald BAER: Perceptions of the Self as the Other: Double-Visions in Literature and Film
Gilbert CARR: "Mit einem kleinen Ruck, wie beim Kinematographen". From the Unmaking of Professor Unrat to an Unmade Der blaue Engel
Yahya ELSAGHE: German Film Adaptations of Jewish Characters in Thomas Mann
Birgit MAIER-KATKIN: Literary and Cinematographic Reflections on the Human Condition by Anna Seghers and Fred Zinnemann
Eoin BOURKE: Two Foxes of Glenarvon
Thomas MARTINEC: Perspective and Reality: Cinematic Transformation of the Narrative Perspective in Schloendorff 's Die Blechtrommel
Carrie SMITH-PREI: "Their Adam's Apple Put Them on Screen": Hansjuergen Pohland's Cat and Mouse and the Narrative of the Male Body
Gisela HOLFTER: From Bestseller to Failure? Heinrich Boell's Irisches Tagebuch (Irish Journal) to Irland und seine Kinder (Children of Eire)
Jan ROEHNERT: A German Poet at the Movies: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
Alasdair KING: "Literatur und Linse": Enzensberger Goes to the Movies
Muriel CORMICAN: Thomas Brussig's Ostalgie in Print and on Celluloid
Claudia GREMLER: "But Somehow it Was Only Television": West German Narratives of the Fall of the Wall in Recent Novels and their Screen Adaptations
Juliet WIGMORE: Sex, Violence and Schubert. Michael Haneke's La Pianiste and Elfriede Jelinek's Die Klavierspielerin
Susan TEBBUTT: Intermediality and the Intercultural Dimension in Karin Brandauer's Film Sidonie based on Erich Hackl's Abschied von Sidonie
Markus Oliver SPITZ: Robert Schneider's Novel Schlafes Bruder in the Light of its Screen Version by Joseph Vilsmaier
Paul M. MALONE: Transposition or Translation? Fiction to Film in Doris Doerrie's Nobody Loves Me and Am I Beautiful?
Peter M. MCISAAC: Taking Doris Doerrie Seriously: Literature, Film, Gender
Patrice DJOUFACK: Adaptation as a Process of Interpretation: Nowhere in Africa - From Stefanie Zweig to Caroline Link
Rod STONEMAN: Alexander Kluge: Utopian Cinema