Permanent disappointment. Graham Greene’s Film Adaptations and Screenplays (1932-1958)
- Juan Agustín Mancebo Roca
Abstract
This article performs an analysis of the text “The Novelist and the Cinema: A Personal Experience” by Graham Greene, in which the author reflects on the connections between his literature and cinema in 1958. A comparison is drawn between his reflections on the relationship between text and image as a critic and scholar and his film projects and adaptations of his novels. The article concludes that cinema was one of his main references as a novelist and his incursion into the medium increased his literary prestige. However, Greene maintained a deep distrust of the relationship between literature and cinema and its results and was very critical of them. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the study of Greene by opening new perspectives and debates on the connections between literature and cinema.
Keywords
cinema, Graham Greene, film industry, literary script, film adaptation
Author Biography
Juan Agustín Mancebo Roca
Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). European PhD in Art History (UCLM, 2001) and Master of Aesthetics and Theory of Cinematography (University of Valladolid, 2008), he has developed research work at the Archivio del '900 of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto (2022 and 2021) and the Real Colegio Complutense, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2011 and 2010). Fellow of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (2013) and the Santander Foundation at the Autonomous Metropolitan University of Mexico (2012).
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