The Writer on Film

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The writer in film: authorship and imagination

Chapter 3 ‘Here is the story of my career…’: the woman writer on film

Chapter 4 ‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’: the male poet in Sylvia (2003) and The Edge of Love (2008)

Chapter 5 Romantic genius on screen: Jane Campion’s Bright Star (2009) and Julien Temple’s Pandaemonium (2000)

Chapter 6 The ‘tables of memory’: Shakespeare, cinema and the writing desk

Chapter 7 Brit-lit biopics, 1990–2010

Chapter 8 Literary biopics: a literary biographer’s perspective

Chapter 10 Becoming Jane in screen adaptations of Austen’s fiction

Chapter 11 Duplicated and duplicitous self-configurings in Kaufman’s Adaptation (2002)

Chapter 12 Writing the endings of cinema: saving film authorship in the cinematic paratexts of Prospero’s Books, Taymor’s The Tempest and The Secret of Kells

Chapter 13 Deliveries of absence: epistolary structures in classical cinema

Chapter 14 ‘Far from literature’: writing as bare act in Robert Bresson’s Journal d’un curé de campagne (1951)

Chapter 15 Documentary li(v)es: writing falsehoods, righting wrongs in von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others (2006)