Debra Fried
Biographic Data
| ID | 3981823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debra Fried |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debra |
| FAMILY NAME | Fried |
| SIGNATURE | FRIED D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hollywood Convention and Film Adaptation
This essay speculates about some of the ways in which originals are changed by three kinds of conventions in classic Hollywood film: the style in which dialogue was edited, the status of filmed objects, and the star system. The originals I have in mind are Shakespearean dramas and the classic fourth-wall plays that Hollywood most often attempted to film. The films I have in mind, however, are not necessarily based on plays. The nature of adaptati…
Repetition, Refrain, and Epitaph
The capacity of this gravestone inscription to be read forwards and backwards seems an apt figure for the ultimate, universal, and certain fate it curtly predicts. The question posed in the first line is decisively answered three times merely by reshuffling in the next three lines the words of the first; in asking the initial question, the epitaph supplies all the terms of its simple and resounding answer. This palindromic epitaph takes about as …
Hollywood Convention and Film Adaptation
This essay speculates about some of the ways in which originals are changed by three kinds of conventions in classic Hollywood film: the style in which dialogue was edited, the status of filmed objects, and the star system. The originals I have in mind are Shakespearean dramas and the classic fourth-wall plays that Hollywood most often attempted to film. The films I have in mind, however, are not necessarily based on plays. The nature of adaptati…
Repetition, Refrain, and Epitaph
The capacity of this gravestone inscription to be read forwards and backwards seems an apt figure for the ultimate, universal, and certain fate it curtly predicts. The question posed in the first line is decisively answered three times merely by reshuffling in the next three lines the words of the first; in asking the initial question, the epitaph supplies all the terms of its simple and resounding answer. This palindromic epitaph takes about as …
Hollywood Convention and Film Adaptation
This essay speculates about some of the ways in which originals are changed by three kinds of conventions in classic Hollywood film: the style in which dialogue was edited, the status of filmed objects, and the star system. The originals I have in mind are Shakespearean dramas and the classic fourth-wall plays that Hollywood most often attempted to film. The films I have in mind, however, are not necessarily based on plays. The nature of adaptati…
Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Adaptation (eye (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work) · Convention (1 work) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (1 work) · Epitaph (1 work) · Hollywood (1 work)