Now a Major Motion Picture: Film Adaptations of Literature and Drama

Now a Major Motion Picture: Film Adaptations of Literature and Drama Christine Geraghty. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008.

Now a Major Motion Picture offers a new agenda for adaptation studies, one in which the source text no longer plays a significant part. Instead Geraghty focuses on how the conventions of popular cinemathe interplay of genres, the organization of space and time through editing and camerawork, the presentation of performers and stars, and the practices of reviewing and publicity-create a series of layers, all of which should be analyzed in detail if one is to understand how an adaptation works on screen.

The book offers a series of case studies to prove the point....