Now A Major Motion Picture

Over the last few years an unprecedented number of groundbreaking works have taken the field of adaptation beyond the edges of ‘Lit Crit’ and onto another level. As Linda Hutcheon1 has so thoroughly argued, adaptations make explicit what is sometimes only implicit in all books, films, plays, paintings, and so on: that all art is based upon other art. This ‘explicitness’ is what Christine Geraghty defines as ‘a recognition of ghostly presences and a shadowing or doubling of what is on the surface by what is glimpsed behind’ (p. 195) in her excellent book, Now a Major Motion Picture: Film Adaptations of Literature and Drama. The author sets herself the brave task of putting the ‘source’ book last in her approaches to various types of adaptations in order to prioritize what is often forgotten in discussions of these films, such as the function of costumes, acting, decor, space

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