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Thomas Leitch
Engagements with Adaptation invites students to consider adaptations on their own terms and to engage with the urgent questions they raise about literary canons, the media industry, the relations among…
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The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies provides a comprehensive and forward-looking treatment of adaptation in its many guises by looking at movies based on sources other than novels, including television…
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Thomas Leitch (University of Delaware)
Focusing on ten crime films that span the range of the twentieth century, Thomas Leitch traces how the distinctions among them become blurred throughout the course of the century, reflecting…
Thomas Leitch (University of Delaware, USA)
From William Dickson’s Rip Van Winkle films (1896) to Baz Luhrmann’s big-budget production of The Great Gatsby (2013) and beyond, cinematic adaptations of American literature participate in a rich and…
Thomas Leitch (Professor of English, University of Delaware)
I would highly recommend Leitch’s study, in particular for its diversity and complexity. The author demonstrates that he is familiar with a large and heterogeneous corpus, including canonical as well…
Leitch regards Wikipedia as an ideal instrument for probing the central assumptions behind liberal education, making it more than merely, as one of its severest critics has charged, the encyclopedia…
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Alfred Hitchcock remains the quintessential cinematic auteur - the director as hero. Debate over his status as an obsessive and dictatorial artist has raised pressing questions about the relation between…
Thomas M. Leitch
Examining Perry Mason - one of the most successful television programs from the 1950, this book looks at the longevity of its appeal and what the continued appeal tells us…
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Developing a model of narrative based on game theory, Thomas Leitch offers a compelling new explanation for the distinctiveness and power of Hitchcock’s films.
Leitch Ritchie
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
Thomas Pringle,Leitch Ritchie
Title: The Poetical Works of Thomas Pringle. With a sketch of his life by Leitch Ritchie.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United…
Thomas Young,John Leitch
Title: Miscellaneous Works … Vols. I. and II. … edited by G. Peacock. (Vol. III. … edited by J. Leitch.).
Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions
The British Library is…
George Peacock, Thomas Young, John Leitch
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Leitch Ritchie, Thomas Pringle
Thomas Young,John Leitch,George Peacock
Leitch Ritchie,Daniel Maclise,Thomas Creswick
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Anonymous,Robert Barnes
Title: Idyllic Pictures. Drawn by Barnes, Miss E. Edwards, P. Gray, Houghton, R. P. Leitch, Pinwell, Sandys, Small, G. Thomas, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the…
Defiantly claims that all films are adaptations . The wide-ranging chapters included in this book highlight the growing and evolving relevance of the field of adaptation studies and its many…
Rashna Wadia Richards,David T. Johnson
Together, they form a collection that is as much a guide for teaching cinephilia as it is an energetic dialogue about the ways that cinephilia and pedagogy enliven and rejuvenate…
A comprehensive survey of one of the most important texts of the Middle Ages.
