A teaching supplement concerning the way literature in English has been made into film, now enlarged to consider how American Culture is reflected on the Screen. The labels in the right-hand column guide you through names of producers, dates, and authors.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Melville at the Movies
Philippe Ramos's Capitaine Achab is the most recent adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851) for the Cinema. It won the International Critics Prize at the Festival of Locarno in 2007.
Gregory Peck starred as Captain Ahab in an earlier version of the novel produced for film by John Huston in 1956.
Links:
Dominique Widemann, "Philippe Ramos 'J'essaie de montrer ce qu'est un être humain,'" L'Humanité (February 13, 2008).
