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The Modern American Novel and the Movies

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Summary

Full Title: The Modern American Novel and the Movies Author(s): Edited by Gerald Peary and Roger Shatzkin Year Published: 1978 Publisher: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company Publication Type: Academic ISBN-10: 0-8044-2682-1 (hardcover), 0-8044-6649-1 (paperback) ISBN-13: Description: This is an anthology of essays about novels that have been made into movies. One of the essays is about Rand's The Fountainhead. This book is part of the a series called the Ungar Film Library. It is currently out of print.

Contents

For each essay, the novel it covers is listed first, followed by the publication year and author of that novel. The title of the essay follows on the next line. Since this is a collection with multiple authors, the authors of each essay are indicated in brackets after the essay title. Chapters significantly related to Ayn Rand are indicated in bold.

• Introduction [Gerald Peary and Roger Shatzkin]
• Tobacco Road (1932) Erskine Caldwell
  Three Roads Taken: The Novel, the Play, and the Film [Douglas Gomery]
• Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), Nathaniel West
  Miss L. Gets Married [Michael Klein]
• They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935), Horace McCoy
  The Unreal McCoy [Paul Warshow]
• Pylon (1935), William Faulkner
  From the Folklore of Speed to Danse Macabre [Michael Stern]
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1935), B. Traven
  Gold Hat, Gold Fever, Silver Screen [Stuart M. Kaminsky]
• Of Mice and Men (1937), John Steinbeck
  Thoughts on a Great Adaptation [William K. Everson]
• To Have and Have Not (1937), Ernest Hemingway
  To Have and Have Not Adapted a Novel [William Rothman]
• The Big Sleep (1939), Raymond Chandler
  Who Cares Who Killed Owen Taylor? [Roger Shatzkin]
• The Day of the Locust (1939), Nathanael West
  The Madding Crowd in the Movies [Sidney Gottlieb]
• The Grapes of Wrath (1939), John Steinbeck
  Trampling Out the Vintage: Sour Grapes [Russell Campbell]
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), Carson McCullers
  Two Planetary Systems [Robert Aldridge]
• Native Son (1940), Richard Wright
  Two Wrights, One Wrong [Peter Brunette]
• Is This Our Life (1941), Ellen Glasgow
  Independent Woman, Doomed Sister [Serafina Kent Bathrick]
• The Human Comedy (1943), William Saroyan
  Mr. Saroyan's Thoroughly American Movie [Patrick McGilligan]
• All the King's Men (1946), Robert Penn Warren
  In Which Humpty Dumpty Becomes King [William Walling]
• Intruder in the Dust (1948), William Faulkner
  Rites of Passage: Novel to Film [E. Pauline Degenfelder]
• The Naked and the Dead (1948), Norman Mailer
  Naked Before the Camera [Norman Mailer]
• The Man with the Golden Arm (1949), Nelson Algren
  Anatomy of a Junkie Movie [Robert C. Rosen]
• The Old Man and the Sea (1952), Ernest Hemmingway
  Film and Mythic Heroism: Sturges's Old Man [Robert L. Nadeau]
• Night of the Hunter (1953), Davis Grubb
  Charles Laughton on Grubb Street [Robin Wood]
• The Last Hurrah (1956), Edwin O'Connor
  John Ford's Boston [Robert Taylor]
• Lolita (1955), Vladimir Nabokov
  The Celluloid Lolita: A Not-So-Crazy Quilt [Brandon French]
• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), Truman Capote
  Brunch on Moon River [Leslie Clark]
• Rabbit, Run (1960), John Updike
  Rabbit Runs Down [Gary Seigel]
• Catch-22 (1961), Joseph Heller
  Did the Author Catch the Movie? [A discussion with Joseph Heller]
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ken Kesey
  Kesey Cured: Forman's Sweet Insanity [Molly Haskell]
• Little Big Man (1964), Thomas Berger
  Berger and Penn's West: Visions and Revisions [Mark Bezanson]
• Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade (1969), Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  Novel Into Film: So It Goes [Stephen Dimeo]
• Deliverance (1970), James Dickey
  Dickey Down the River [James F. Beaton]
• Appendix: The Politics of Adaptation
  • The Wet Parade (1931), Upton Sinclair
    Que Viva Prohibition? [Joseph Mansfield]
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Ernest Hemingway
    The "Unmaking" of a Political Film [Constance Pohl]
  • The Fountainhead (1943), Ayn Rand
    Ayn Rand in the Stockyard of the Spirit [Kevin McGann]
• Notes on the Contributors
• Sources for Films Listed in Film Credits and Filmography
• Film Credits
• Selected Filmography: Film Adaptations of American Novels, 1930-1975
  1. By Author
  2. By Film Title
• Selected Bibliography
  1. Covering Film Adaptations of Individual American Novels, 1930-1975
  2. General Entries
• Index

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