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A Companion to Literature and Film provides state-of-the-art research on world literature, film, and the complex theoretical relationship between them. Twenty-five essays by international experts cover the most important topics in the study of literature and film adaptations.

Contributors explore, in a highly innovative and groundbreaking way, important topics in the field. These include:

• • Key issues such as dialogism, hidden intertextuality, and adaptation as readings, critiques, and rewritings of source novels
• • Cultural concerns including iconophobia and the word/image wars
• • Theoretical issues such as ‘transécriture’ and ‘intermediality’
• • Genre topics including ‘hagiopic’ and the apocalyptic film
• • The relationship with other media, including photography and painting
• • Consideration of format, including seriality, and diverse source material
• • Thematic subjects such as hetero-masculinity in The Talented Mr Ripley and libertinage in the work of Eric Rohmer.

The combination of theory and sophisticated readings of novels and adaptations adds up to a tour de force that reshapes and reconfigures the very field of literature and film studies.