From Camera Lens To Critical Lens From Camera Lens To Critical Lens A Collection Of Best Essays On Film Adaptation Edited by Rebecca Housel CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PRESS From Camera Lens To Critical Lens: A Collection Of Best Essays On Film Adaptation, edited by Rebecca Housel This book first published 2006 by Cambridge Scholars Press 15 Angerton Gardens, Newcastle, NE5 2JA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2006 by Rebecca Housel 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 1-84718-031-0 This volume is dedicated to all individuals who support movies; movies invite imagination and encourage story-telling among all peoples. Film helps to enlighten and enliven the audience beyond the boundaries of society, and also opens sometimes closed doors on the human condition. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements.........................................................................................x And Speilberg said, “Let there be light!” an Introduction by Rebecca Housel..............................................................xii Chapter 1 From Film to Life: The Construction of Identity in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and I “Heart” Huckabees by Erin Hill-Parks...........................................................................................1 Chapter 2 Bloomsbury Blues: Virginia Woolf’s Moments and Michael Cunningham’s Hours by Suzette Henke............................................................................................9 Chapter 3 Seeing What’s Not There Instead of What Is: Childlessness and Infertility in the Adaptation of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Jody W. Pennington.................................................................................21 Chapter 4 Anti-theatre in Film by Temenuga Trifonova................................................................................33 Chapter 5 As Hollywood Teaches: Tracing the Cultural Impact of Lolita and its Adaptations to Film by Kellie Dawson..........................................................................................59 Chapter 6 Adaptation as an act of confession in Lepage’s Le confessionnal and Hitchcock’s I Confess by Sylvie Bissonnette....................................................................................73 viii Table of Contents Chapter 7 Solitary Visions on the Cutting Room Floor: The Effect of Collaboration on Narrative in Hitchcock’s Film Adaptation of Rebecca by Karen R. Tolchin......................................................................................91 Chapter 8 Specters of Psycho: Freud, Fear, and Film Adaptation by Shannon Donaldson-McHugh and Don Moore........................................98 Chapter 9 Unrequited Adaptation: Charlie Kaufman and The Orchid Thief by Lars Söderlund.......................................................................................109 Chapter 10 Mutant Authors and Cross-Pollinated Texts in Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation by Cecilia Sayad..........................................................................................123 Chapter 11 African Tales and American Heritage in Daughters Of The Dust: A Complex Tale of Adaptations by Alina Patriche.........................................................................................133 Chapter 12 Cross-Cultural Nostalgia and Visual Consumption: On the Adaptation and Japanese Reception of Huo Jianqi’s 2003 Film Nuan by Hui Xiao.................................................................................................142 Chapter 13 From French Chinese Novel to Chinese French Film: Reshaping the Address of Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Across Narrative Forms by E. K. Tan................................................................................................160 Chapter 14 Sex, Scandal and Corruption in An Ideal Husband: How New Labour Lost its Innocence in the Political Wilderness by Ann-Marie Cook....................................................................................170 From Camera Lens to Critical Lens ix Bibliography...............................................................................................199 Ladies and Gentlemen, the Stars of the Show: Our List of Contributors..............................................................................212 Index...........................................................................................................217