Philip Roth on Screen: Adaptation and Afterlife: Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations
Editat de Derek Graf, Clayton Dillarden Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 apr 2027
Proceeding from the premise that adaptation is not merely an act of translation but a cultural and interpretive event shaped by its own creative, historical, and ideological contexts, contributors to this volume interrogate how Roth's complex literary voice, themes, and characters have been translated, transformed, or resisted in visual media.
While Roth's novels have been the subject of extensive critical analysis, their screen adaptations - ranging from obscure early films like Battle of Blood Island (1960) to high-profile productions like The Plot Against America (2020) - have received comparatively little attention and mixed success. Contributors explore these adaptations through comparative analyses and close readings to demonstrate the unique challenges and opportunities for adaptation presented by the metafictional structures, narrative unreliability, and provocative explorations of sexuality, Jewish-American identity, and American political life found in Roth's fiction.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798216451969
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 1 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 1 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Introduction: "Philip Roth on Screen"
Derek Graf (University of Oklahoma, USA) and Clayton Dillard (University of Texas as Arlington, USA)
1. Acting Out and Working Through: The Praxis of Adaptation and the Early Fiction of Philip Roth
Noah Jampol (Bronx Community College, USA)
2. Reworking Roth's Repellent in Larry Peerce's Goodbye, Columbus and Ernest Lehman's Portnoy's Complaint
Joeseph Ozias (Central Methodist University, USA)
3. Prestige Incoherence: The Human Stain, Miramax, and the Contradictions of Hollywood Respectability
Clayton Dillard (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
4. "I am the kind of person who writes this kind of story!": Reframing Nathan Zuckerman in The Ghost Writer, The Prague Orgy, and American Pastoral
Derek Graf (University of Oklahoma, USA)
5. Philip Roth and the Butcher Shop: Imagination and Slaughter in Indignation
Aimee Pozorski (Central Connecticut State University, USA)
6. "It's Your Problem Now": Reading the Altered Endings in the HBO Adaptation of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America
Andy Connolly (Hostos, CUNY, USA)
7. Losing Their Touch?: Reimagining Roth's Late Style in Isabel Coixet's Elegy and Barry Levinson's The Humbling
Matthew Shipe (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
8. Who Narrates, Who Deceives: Narrative Performance in Arnaud Desplechin's Tromperie
Amar Singh and Shipra Tholia (both Banaras Hindu University, India)
Conclusion: Adaptation and Afterlife
Derek Graf (University of Oklahoma, USA) and Clayton Dillard (University of Texas as Arlington, USA)
Afterword
Ira Nadel (Emeritus of University of British Columbia, Canada)
Notes on Contributors
Index
Introduction: "Philip Roth on Screen"
Derek Graf (University of Oklahoma, USA) and Clayton Dillard (University of Texas as Arlington, USA)
1. Acting Out and Working Through: The Praxis of Adaptation and the Early Fiction of Philip Roth
Noah Jampol (Bronx Community College, USA)
2. Reworking Roth's Repellent in Larry Peerce's Goodbye, Columbus and Ernest Lehman's Portnoy's Complaint
Joeseph Ozias (Central Methodist University, USA)
3. Prestige Incoherence: The Human Stain, Miramax, and the Contradictions of Hollywood Respectability
Clayton Dillard (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
4. "I am the kind of person who writes this kind of story!": Reframing Nathan Zuckerman in The Ghost Writer, The Prague Orgy, and American Pastoral
Derek Graf (University of Oklahoma, USA)
5. Philip Roth and the Butcher Shop: Imagination and Slaughter in Indignation
Aimee Pozorski (Central Connecticut State University, USA)
6. "It's Your Problem Now": Reading the Altered Endings in the HBO Adaptation of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America
Andy Connolly (Hostos, CUNY, USA)
7. Losing Their Touch?: Reimagining Roth's Late Style in Isabel Coixet's Elegy and Barry Levinson's The Humbling
Matthew Shipe (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
8. Who Narrates, Who Deceives: Narrative Performance in Arnaud Desplechin's Tromperie
Amar Singh and Shipra Tholia (both Banaras Hindu University, India)
Conclusion: Adaptation and Afterlife
Derek Graf (University of Oklahoma, USA) and Clayton Dillard (University of Texas as Arlington, USA)
Afterword
Ira Nadel (Emeritus of University of British Columbia, Canada)
Notes on Contributors
Index
Recenzii
A fresh approach to Roth that is both focused and expansive, this collection illuminates the unique cultural contexts that have shaped cinematic interpretations of his work, and invites us to think more deeply about the ways Roth belongs to a larger conversation about the limits and possibilities of adaptation itself.
Filling a conspicuous gap in the scholarship on Philip Roth's writing, Derek Graf and Clayton Dillard offer a superb collection of multidisciplinary essays exploring Roth's 'afterlife' on screen. Addressing every adaptation produced to date, the volume's astute, deeply researched, highly readable chapters examine how filmmakers interpret and reconfigure Roth's voice, modes of expression, and ethical, psychological, and historical concerns in order to reshape his work for visual media. The essays uncover filmmakers both exploring the limits and capitalizing on the strengths of cinematic representation - and illustrate, too, why readers and filmmakers keep returning to Roth's fiction. Some contributors consider how Roth's thematic preoccupations, including historical representation, the politics of liberalism, the tension between imagination and reason, and his notorious interest in the repellent, translate to the screen. Others take up the ethical, epistemological, and commercial implications of adapting the writer's forms; chapters explore filmmakers' reflections on staged dialogue, depictions of Roth's recurrent narrator and of his unruly, unresolved narratives, and the tensions arising between adaptation and prestige filmmaking. Throughout, Philip Roth on Screen rewards readers with fascinating new perspectives on Roth's fiction and on the process of adaptation itself.
Filling a conspicuous gap in the scholarship on Philip Roth's writing, Derek Graf and Clayton Dillard offer a superb collection of multidisciplinary essays exploring Roth's 'afterlife' on screen. Addressing every adaptation produced to date, the volume's astute, deeply researched, highly readable chapters examine how filmmakers interpret and reconfigure Roth's voice, modes of expression, and ethical, psychological, and historical concerns in order to reshape his work for visual media. The essays uncover filmmakers both exploring the limits and capitalizing on the strengths of cinematic representation - and illustrate, too, why readers and filmmakers keep returning to Roth's fiction. Some contributors consider how Roth's thematic preoccupations, including historical representation, the politics of liberalism, the tension between imagination and reason, and his notorious interest in the repellent, translate to the screen. Others take up the ethical, epistemological, and commercial implications of adapting the writer's forms; chapters explore filmmakers' reflections on staged dialogue, depictions of Roth's recurrent narrator and of his unruly, unresolved narratives, and the tensions arising between adaptation and prestige filmmaking. Throughout, Philip Roth on Screen rewards readers with fascinating new perspectives on Roth's fiction and on the process of adaptation itself.