Literary adaptation to the big screen: The authorial validation of the woman filmmaker

Authors

  • Érica Faleiro Rodrigues University of London, School of Arts, Department of Cultures and Languages, WC1H 0PD, London

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v3n2.235

Keywords:

film adaptation, feminism, women filmmakers, film and literature

Abstract

A review of the book Adaptation, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers, in which Associate Professor of English and Film at the University of Southampton Shelley Cobb investigates the process of literary adaptation of women written fiction by women filmmakers, in a process of duplicate female artistic creation and authorial validation.

Author Biography

Érica Faleiro Rodrigues, University of London, School of Arts, Department of Cultures and Languages, WC1H 0PD, London

Érica Faleiro Rodrigues is a film historian and filmmaker, researching gender and politics in film, with a focus on the years surrounding the Portuguese revolution of 1974 and the wider international context of screen representation of desire, sexuality and sexual freedom. She is currently a PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London, at the Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies

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Published

2016-06-03

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016): Other films

Section

Reviews