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Contents Acknowledgments ix 1 Literature versus Literacy 1 2 One-Reel Epics 22 3 The Word Made Film 47 4 Entry-Level Dickens 67 5 Between Adaptation and Allusion 93 6 Exceptional Fidelity 127 7 Traditions of Quality 151 8 Streaming Pictures 179 9 The Hero with a Hundred Faces 207 10 The Adapter as Auteur 236 11 Postliterary Adaptation 257 12 Based on a True Story 280 Notes 305 Bibliography 325 Index 339 This page intentionally left blank ...

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