LARB Digital Edition: Film and the Art of Adaptation

More so than any other art form, film relies on collaboration. The essays in this collection, “Film and the Art of Adaptation,” consider a range of contemporary films inspired by celebrated works of American literature, including Baz Luhrmann''s spectacular take on The Great Gatsby and James Franco''s faithful transposition of As I Lay Dying.

Ruth Yeazell considers the difficulty of representing th...