The Writer on Film

1. Introduction
Judith Buchanan

Part I. Cinema’s Versions and Uses of Literary Lives

2. The writer in film: authorship and imagination
Laura Marcus

3. ‘Here is the story of my career…’: the woman writer on film
Sonia Haiduc

4. ‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’: the male poet in Sylvia (2003) and The Edge of Love (2008)
Siân Harris

5. Romantic genius on screen: Jane Campion’s Bright Star (2009) and Julien Temple’s Pandaemonium (2000)
Julian North

6. The ‘tables of memory’: Shakespeare, cinema and the writing desk
Megan Murray-Pepper

7. Brit-lit biopics, 1990–2010
Andrew Higson

8. Literary biopics: a literary biographer’s perspective
Geoffrey Wall

Part II. Cinema’s Authorial Proxies and Fictional Authors

9. Hemingway adapted: screening the star author
R. Barton Palmer

10. Becoming Jane in screen adaptations of Austen’s fiction
Deborah Cartmell

11. Duplicated and duplicitous self-configurings in Kaufman’s Adaptation (2002)
Gennelle Smith

12. Writing the endings of cinema: saving film authorship in the cinematic paratexts of Prospero’s Books, Taymor’s The Tempest and The Secret of Kells
Richard Burt

13. Deliveries of absence: epistolary structures in classical cinema
Clara Rowland

14. ‘Far from literature’: writing as bare act in Robert Bresson’s Journal d’un curé de campagne (1951)
Erica Sheen

15. Documentary li(v)es: writing falsehoods, righting wrongs in von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others (2006)
Judith Buchanan

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Film and Television Studies, Genre, Literary Theory, Media Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies, Film History