Novels, films, and the word/image wars / Kamilla Elliott -- Sacred work, profane image : theologies of adaptation / Ella Shohat -- Gospel truth? From Cecil B. DeMille to Nicholas Ray / Pamela Grace -- Transécriture and narrative mediatics : the stakes of intermediality / André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion -- The look : from film to novel, an essay in comparative narratology / François Jost -- Adaptation and mis-adaptations : film, literature, and social discourses / Francesco Casetti -- The invisible novelty : film adaptations in the 1910s / Yuri Tsivian -- Italy and America : Pinocchio's first cinematic trip / Raffaele De Berti -- The intertextuality of early cinema : a prologue to Fantômas / Tom Gunning -- Cosmopolitan projections : world literature on Chinese screens / Zhang Zhen -- The rhetoric of interruption / Allen S. Weiss -- Visualizing the voice : Joyce, cinema, and the politics of vision / Luke Gibbons -- Adapting cinema to history : a revolution in the making / Dudley Andrew -- Photographic Verismo, cinematic adaptation, and the staging of a neorealist landscape / Noa Steimatsky -- The devil's parody : Horace McCoy's appropriation and refiguration of two Hollywood musicals / Charles Musser -- The sociological turn of adaptation studies : the example of Film noir / R. Barton Palmer -- Adapting Farewell, my lovely / William Luhr -- Daphne du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock / Richard Allen -- Running time : the chronotype of The loneliness of the long distance runner / Peter Hitchcock -- From libertinage to Eric Rohmer : transcending "adaptation" / Maria Tortajada -- The moment of portraiture : Scorsese reads Whaarton / Brigitte Peucker -- The talented poststructuralist : hetero-masculinity, gay artifice, and a class passing / Chris Straayer -- From Bram Stoker's Dracula to Bram Stoker's "Dracula" / Margaret Montalbano -- The Bible as cultural objects(s) in cinema / Gavriel Moses -- All's well that ends Wells : apocalypse and empire in The war of the worlds / Julian Cornell.