Our second issue focuses on the decisions that filmmakers consider when adapting films from written works.\u00a0 The adaptation process takes into consideration narrative structure, fidelity to source material, stylistic and generic considerations, and a wide range of changes necessary the medium of cinema.<\/p>\n
In “Ernest Hemingway\u2019s The Killers<\/em>: Fidelity and Expansion in Film Adaptation,”\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>Josh DeLaRosa examines the 1946 Robert Siodmak film\u00a0The Killers<\/em>\u00a0and its expansive, yet faithful, adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway short story of the same name.\u00a0 In “Letter from an Unknown Woman<\/em>: Memory as a Repository for Our Humanity”<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Brittney Bluhm focuses on the use of memory and its application in Max Oph\u00fcls’ 1948 adaptation of\u00a0Stefan Zweig’s story.\u00a0 In his “Scorsese\u2019s Cape Fear<\/em>: A Max Cady for the 1990s”<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Jake Nielsen compares Robert DeNiro’s villain with both the 1957 John MacDonald novel The Executioners<\/em> and the 1962 adaptation\u00a0Cape Fear<\/em>.\u00a0 Lastly, I work through the adaptation process and choices in “12 Years a Slave<\/em>: Adapting Freedom”,<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>comparing the 2013 Steve McQueen film to the memoir of Solomon Northup.<\/p>\n Stay tuned for our next issue, focusing on the evolution of films\u00a0noir into a neo-noir aesthetic that would reflect a changing American society and culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our second issue focuses on the decisions that filmmakers consider when adapting films from written works.\u00a0 The adaptation process takes into consideration narrative structure, fidelity to source material, stylistic and generic considerations, and a wide range of changes necessary the medium of cinema. In “Ernest Hemingway\u2019s The Killers: Fidelity and Expansion in Film Adaptation,”\u00a0Josh DeLaRosa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}