Philip Roth on Screen
Adaptation and Afterlife
Philip Roth on Screen
Adaptation and Afterlife
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Philip Roth on Screen: Adaptation and Afterlife is the first scholarly volume to offer a sustained analysis of cinematic and televisual adaptations of the fiction of Philip Roth, one of the most influential and controversial figures in postwar American literature.
Proceeding from the premise that adaptation is not merely an act of translation, but a cultural and interpretive event shaped by its own creative, historical, and ideological contexts, contributors to this volume interrogate how Roth's complex literary voice, themes, and characters have been translated, transformed, or resisted in visual media.
While Roth's novels have been the subject of extensive critical analysis, their screen adaptations – ranging from obscure early films like Battle of Blood Island (1960) to high-profile productions like The Plot Against America (2020) – have received comparatively little attention and mixed success. Contributors explore these adaptations through comparative analyses and close readings to demonstrate the unique challenges and opportunities for adaptation presented by the metafictional structures, narrative unreliability, and provocative explorations of sexuality, Jewish-American identity, and American political life found in Roth's fiction.
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Table of Contents
Derek Graf (New York Institute of Technology, USA) and Clayton Dillard (Texas Christian University, USA)
1. Acting Out: Roth's Early Adaptations and the Power of Genre Transformation
Noah Jampol (Bronx Community College, CUNY, USA)
2. Reworking Roth's Repellent in Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy's Complaint
Joey Ozias (Central Methodist University, USA)
3. Prestige Incoherence: The Human Stain and the Limits of Hollywood Respectability
Clayton Dillard (Texas Christian University, USA)
4. Zuckerman in Translation: The Vanishing Voice of Roth's Alter Ego in American Pastoral and The Prague Orgy
Derek Graf (New York Institute of Technology, USA)
5. The Plot Against The Plot Against America? A Comparative Reading of Roth's Novel and its HBO Serialization in the Era of Trump
Andy Connolly (Hostos Community College, CUNY, USA)
6. Philip Roth and the Butcher Shop: Adapting (to) Slaughter in Indignation
Aimee Pozorski (Central Connecticut State University, USA)
7. Losing Their Touch?: Reimagining Roth's Late Style in Isabel Coixet's Elegy and Barry Levinson's The Humbling
Matthew Shipe (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Conclusion: Fictional Afterlives: Roth's Voice in a New Media Landscape
Derek Graf (New York Institute of Technology, USA) and Clayton Dillard (Texas Christian University, USA)
Bibliography
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
Product details
| Published | 04 Feb 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9798216451945 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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