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Robert Louis Stevenson: Life, Literature and the Silver Screen
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| Published by McFarland and Company |
| 1994 |
| ISBN: 0899507883 |
| Library Binding: 480 pages; Publisher: McFarland & Company (www.mcfarlandpub.com); From Book News, Inc.: Studies Robert Louis Stevenson's cinematic legacy, with a look at his life and his body of work. Examines adapted stories and all relevant film versions, including analyses of the 1931 adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the 1945 version of The Body Snatcher. Discusses the process of adapting literature for the movies, and demonstrates how Stevenson's stories have been misrepresented for the past 80 years. Includes numerous b&w photos from the author's life and from films. Product Description: Robert Louis Stevenson's cinematic legacy is studied in-depth here, with a look at his life and his body of work. From The Sire De Maletroit's Door (1877) to St. Ives (1896), each adapted story and all relevant film versions are examined, including exhaustive analyses of the 1931 adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the 1945 version of The Body Snatcher. A discussion of the process of adapting literature for the movies, demonstrating how Stevenson's stories have been misrepresented for more than 80 years, is also provided.
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| Biography
, Educational
, Film/Cinema/Stage
, History
, Humanities
, Language and Literature
, Literary Criticism
, Reference
, Scholarly
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