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Marketing Jane Austen at the Megaplex

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Dianne F. Sadoff
Novel (2010) 43 (1): 83–92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-2009-067
Published: 01 May 2010
...Dianne F. Sadoff Recent visual-culture scholars have sought to overturn the notion that a film adaptation should be “faithful” to its literary source. Yet fidelity aesthetics is a capacious concept that may not be theorized apart from cultural uses, historical situations, film production...
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Novel Circulations: Old Acquaintance, Rich and Famous, La Flor de Mi Secreto

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Melissa Hardie
Novel (2017) 50 (1): 112–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-3854331
Published: 01 May 2017
...Melissa Hardie Across three women's films, the status of the literary novel in the midst of changing media environments is melodramatically plotted through the figure of “old acquaintance.” Vincent Sherman's 1943 Old Acquaintance pits the meager output of celebrated writer Katherine “Kit” Marlowe...
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Fictions of the Global

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Rita Barnard
Novel (2009) 42 (2): 207–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-2009-006
Published: 01 August 2009
... has called “hyperlink cinema,” a form that emerging directors like Alexandro Gonzáles Iñárritu have used to connect narratives set in widely disparate locations (the film Babel is my case in point). The essay then analyzes David Mitchell's Ghostwritten as a “hypertext” novel, pointing out how its...
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Impossible Closure: Realism and Durational Aesthetics in Susan Meiselas's Nicaragua

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Terri Weissman
Novel (2016) 49 (2): 295–315.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-3509051
Published: 01 August 2016
... of the Nicaraguan Revolution, shot in 1978–79, and her film Pictures from a Revolution (1991), in which she reconsiders those earlier images. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Documentary photograph photography and realism durational aesthetics art and social change Perhaps no two...
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From World to Globe: The Transformation of Israeli Cultural Production in the Time of Neoliberal Globalization

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Kfir Cohen
Novel (2018) 51 (1): 36–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-4357397
Published: 01 May 2018
... of the relation between private and public spheres. Recent Israeli literature and film consequently invite us to rethink the stylistic preoccupation of contemporary theories of world literature by asking how these media use aesthetic figures to give form to the concepts of freedom, necessity, and knowledge...
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A Tale of Two Marats: On the Abhorrence of Verticality, from Laissez-Faire to Neoliberalism

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Dierdra Reber
Novel (2018) 51 (2): 188–209.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-6846048
Published: 01 August 2018
...-Louis David's The Death of Marat ( 1793 ) alongside Vik Muniz's Marat/Tião as depicted in the documentary film Waste Land ( 2010 ) as evidence of the epistemological continuity between the laissez-faire and neoliberal political landscapes of the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries, respectively...
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Dreiser's Stamping Room: Becoming Media in An American Tragedy

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Kate Marshall
Novel (2013) 46 (2): 234–252.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-2088121
Published: 01 August 2013
... and identity. Although the mass media and other representational technologies such as cameras and film are notoriously complicit with the deterministic forces propelling An American Tragedy, I show that what counts as the “medial” in the novel appears instead in very different technologies: the stamping...
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Modernism in Hollywood

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Max Brzezinski
Novel (2011) 44 (3): 517–520.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-1381461
Published: 01 November 2011
... thomas cerasulo, Authors Out Here: Fitzgerald, West, Parker, and Schulberg in Hollywood (Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2010), pp. 216, cloth, $29.95. Like Thomas Cerasulo’s new critical work, Authors Out Here: Fitzgerald, West, Parker and Schulberg in Hollywood, the Coen brothers’ 1991 film...
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The Concept of the Contemporary

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Aarthi Vadde
Novel (2019) 52 (2): 343–346.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-7547129
Published: 01 August 2019
... to the formal particularities of the novels and films it treats. Martin is a scrupulous and surprising close reader who distinguishes his approach to contemporary fiction via a robust theory of genre. Metaphorically speaking, genre confers historical drag on the contemporary's drift. Methodologically speaking...
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On the Benefits of a Ban

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Stephanie A. Smith
Novel (2015) 48 (3): 502–504.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-3150541
Published: 01 November 2015
... predilection for Victorian literature and classical Hollywood film is not quite as universal as I might privately desire it to be, I am hopeful that my illustration of censorship's favorable effects upon these two genres will encourage a more complex and nuanced view of censorship practices across the artistic...
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Toward a Cultural Critical Field Book

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Tyler Curtain
Novel (2011) 44 (1): 149–152.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-1164500
Published: 01 May 2011
...Tyler Curtain SCHANTZ NED , Gossip, Letters, Phones: The Scandal of Female Networks in Film and Literature ( Oxford : Oxford UP , 2008 ), pp. 200 , cloth, $65.00 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Toward a Cultural Critical Field Book ned...
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Visual Storytelling: Cinematic Ekphrasis in the Latin American Novel of Globalization

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Dierdra Reber
Novel (2010) 43 (1): 65–71.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-2009-064
Published: 01 May 2010
..., bringing the characters’ and reader’s perspectives alike up and out of the circumstance and coordinates of imprisonment. This extended imaginary space of film becomes a common ground for the otherwise unthinkable understanding between Molina and Valentín, who gradually metamorphose into a hybrid...
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Modernity and a Day

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Corina Stan
Novel (2020) 53 (3): 485–489.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-8624715
Published: 01 November 2020
...Corina Stan Philip Sicker , Ulysses, Film, and Visual Culture ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 ), pp. 276 , cloth, $105.00 . Copyright © 2020 by Novel, Inc. 2020 Upon finishing Philip Sicker's delightful book Ulysses, Film, and Visual Culture , the reader...
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Pleasures of Sex and Tech

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JOHN MARX
Novel (2006) 39 (2): 291–294.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/ddnov.039020291
Published: 01 August 2006
... with film star Elizabeth Taylor. He believes that this deadly collision will release some powerful libidinal energy bound up with the body of the star, and that whoever dies with her will achieve a kind of immortality (1).One collaborator in this conceptual knot of autoeroticism is advertising...
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Introduction: Antisocial Goods

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LISA FLUET
Novel (2007) 40 (3): 207–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/ddnov.040030207
Published: 01 November 2007
... Republic 16 May 2005 : 36 –39. Wood , Michael . “The Discourse of Others.” Children of Silence: On Contemporary Fiction . New York: Columbia UP, 1998 . 171 –82. Introduction: Antisocial Goods LISA FLUET The final film in the series of production...
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Feeling Liberal on Earth

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Kathleen Frederickson
Novel (2018) 51 (3): 538–541.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-7086772
Published: 01 November 2018
... significance. The book's transnational archive is predominantly “hemispheric,” focusing on US and Latin American films, texts, and advertising campaigns, mostly from the last twenty years. Planetary ecological discourse often designates the scene of the “global culture” in the title. Not only is sustainability...
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The Novel as the Future Anterior of the Book: Tom McCarthy's Remainder and Ali Smith's The Accidental

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Christina Lupton
Novel (2016) 49 (3): 504–518.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-3651261
Published: 01 November 2016
... of Books 9 July 2013 . Drucker Joanna . Writing Machines . Cambridge : MIT P , 2002 . Kittler Friedrich . Gramophone, Film, Typewriter . Trans. Winthrop-Young Geoffrey and Wutz Michael . Stanford : Stanford UP , 1999 . Kittler Friedrich . Literature...
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Reading Hawthorne in a Gender-Biased Academy

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JEAN MARIE LUTES
Novel (2000) 33 (2): 274–275.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1346089
Published: 01 August 2000
... then discusses film adaptations of The Scarlet Letter, focusing especially on the latest and much-maligned film version starring Derni Moore. Although Barlowe rejects readings of Hawthorne's Hester as an empowering image for women and finds early twentieth-century film portrayals equally oppressive, she...
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Women and the Technologies of Modernity

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ANN ARDIS
Novel (2004) 37 (3): 356–357.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/ddnov.037030356
Published: 01 November 2004
... that the work of Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, and modernist women writing on cinema "is in urgent and experimental dialogue with the technologies of modernity, par- ticularly the vocabulary and representative effects of domestic photography" and film (218). Drawing as well on post-Lacanian feminist...
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Mutant City: On Partial Transformations in Three Johannesburg Narratives

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Timothy Wright
Novel (2018) 51 (3): 417–437.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-7086462
Published: 01 November 2018
..., Wikus has not relinquished his identification with the human: in the final scene of the film we see Wikus fashioning a flower of scrap metal—a flower identical to those that have been mysteriously left on the doorstep of his wife. His intensely expressive gaze speaks of a pained longing, a lingering...
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