OLD Literature: Film Adaptations
Resources for Literature-Based English Courses
Best Bet Search Tools
- Film & Television Literature Index With Full Text This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive bibliographic and full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. This database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for over 400 publications and selected coverage of 300, as well as full text for more than 150 journals and books.
- Arts & Humanities Database This link opens in a new window
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Features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies. *This is a Traveler resource. The Traveler Statewide Resource project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Because many movie and film reviews appear in newspapers and magazines, these may be helpful.
Web Sites
- IMDb
Look up film & select “critic” under reviews. - Movie Review Query EngineLinks to 100,000+ movie reviews
Popular Adaptations
Novels into Film - Adaptations and Interpretation by Call Number: PN 1997.85 .N68 2018ISBN: 9781682179079Publication Date: 2018-09-01100 concise essays on significant novels and movie adaptations, ranging from classics to contemporary favorites.
Cinematic Hamlet by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780821443651Publication Date: 2011-03-01Scene-by-scene analysis of the methods used by Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, and Michael Almereyda to translate Hamlet into highly distinctive and remarkably effective films.
- Ibsen on Film
Scholarly article from Scandinavian Review considers some of the 112 film versions of Henrik Ibsen's plays. - Oedipus in CinemaExamines the history and variety of film adaptations of the Oedipus myth based on the work of Sophocles.
