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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ferrell, William K., 1930- Literature and film as modern mythology. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000 (OCoLC)606285875 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
William K Ferrell |
| ISBN: | 0275967573 9780275967574 0275968138 9780275968137 |
| OCLC Number: | 41628195 |
| Description: | vi, 216 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Part 1 : The journey begins -- In the beginning. The process -- Reading the novel and the film. The written narrative : how literature communicates ; How film communicates ; Applying the archetype to novels and films -- Part 2 : Knights and heroes -- Hope springs eternal. "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank redemption" by Stephen King -- A search for laughter. One flew over the cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey -- Romantic heroes never die. Shane by Jack Schaefer -- Part 3 : Rites of passage -- A return to matriarchy. The color purple by Alice Walker -- Finding yourself in a lost world. The English patient by Michael Ondaatje -- The steep hills of Thalia, Texas. The last picture show by Larry McMurtry -- Part 4 : Morality and magic -- A "good" politician is hard to find. All the king's men by Robert Penn Warren -- Heaven comes to Iowa. Shoeless Joe/Field of dreams by W.P. Kinsella -- Finding morality in a bullring. The sun also rises by Ernest Hemingway -- Politics and the public. Being there by Jerzy Kosinski -- Part 5 : Closure. |
| Responsibility: | William K. Ferrell. |
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