The essays in this 2007 collection analyse major film adaptations of twentieth-century American fiction, from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon to Toni Morrison's Beloved. During the century, films based on American literature came to play a central role in the history of the American cinema. Combining cinematic and literary approaches, this volume explores the adaptation process from conception through production and reception. The contributors explore the ways political and historical contexts have shaped the transfer from book to screen, and the new perspectives that films bring to literary works. In particular, they examine how the twentieth-century literary modes of realism, modernism, and postmodernism have influenced the forms of modern cinema. Written in a lively and accessible style, the book includes production stills and full filmographies. Together with its companion volume on nineteenth-century fiction, the volume offers a comprehensive account of the rich tradition of American literature on screen. The essays in this 2007 collection analyse major film adaptations of twentieth-century American fiction, from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon to Toni Morrison's Beloved. During the century, films based on American literature came to play a central role in the history of the American cinema. Combining cinematic and literary approaches, this volume explores the adaptation process from conception through production and reception. The contributors explore the ways political and historical contexts have shaped the transfer from book to screen, and the new perspectives that films bring to literary works. In particular, they examine how the twentieth-century literary modes of realism, modernism, and postmodernism have influenced the forms of modern cinema. Written in a lively and accessible style, the book includes production stills and full filmographies. Together with its companion volume on nineteenth-century fiction, the volume offers a comprehensive account of the rich tradition of American literature on screen.

1 Filming an unfinished novel: The Last Tycoon 2 The texts behind The Killers 3 The Day of the Locust : 1939 and 1975 4 Ship of Fools: from novel to film 5 Intruder in the Dust and the southern community 6 Dramatizing The Member of the Wedding 7 Film and narration: two versions of Lolita 8 World War Ⅱ through the lens of Vietnam: adapting Slaughterhouse-Five to film 9 John Huston’s Wise Blood 10 Genre and authorship in David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch 11 Screening Raymond Carver: Robert Altman’s Short Cuts 12 The Color Purple: translating the African-American novel for Hollywood 13 The specter of history: filming memory in Beloved 14 Filming the spiritual landscape of James Jones’s The Thin Red Line

R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of English at Clemson University, South Carolina

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