Literature goes to the movies

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.

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Showing posts with label 1961. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The Moviegoer

Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer should be made into a film. Percy received an award from the University of Notre Dame in 2007.

Posted by JKC at 6:43 PM

Labels: 1961, Percy_Walker

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You will want to read some literature and watch some films to form your own ideas about what happens when literature goes to the movies...

Date of film release

1939. Gone with the Wind USA.

1959. The Sound and the Fury by Martin Ritt USA.

1959. Wise Blood USA.

1962. To Kill a Mockingbird USA.

1974. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman USA.

1985. The Color Purple USA.

1990. An Angel at My Table by Jane Campion, New Zealand.

1991. Fried Green Tomatoes USA.

1993. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Stephen Sommers USA.

1997. Mrs. Dalloway UK.

1999. Beloved USA.

2003. The Big Fish USA.

2006. All the King's Men by Steven Zaillian USA.

Date of publication

1884. Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 1993 USA film.

1925. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway. 1997 UK film.

1929. William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury. 1959 USA film.

1936. Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind. 1939 USA film.

1939. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath. 1940 USA film.

1946. Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men. 2006 USA film.

1952. Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood. 1959 USA film.

1960. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird. 1962 USA film.

1961. Walker Percy, The Moviegoer. USA film.

1971. Ernest Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. 1974 USA film.

1980. John Kennedy Toole, A Confederay of Dunces. 2009? USA film.

1982. Alice Walker, The Color Purple. 1985 USA film.

1987. Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes. 1991 USA film.

1987. Toni Morrison, Beloved. 1999 USA film.

1998. Daniel Wallace, The Big Fish. 2003 USA film.

Useful links

"The 1000 Best Movies Ever Made" from the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/ref/movies/1000best.html)

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