Quarterly Review of Film StudiesVolume 2, Issue 1, 1977

Film and literature: A debate revisited

AbstractClaude-Edmonde Magny. The Age of the American Novel: The Film Aesthetic of Fiction Between the Two Wars. Translated by Eleanor Hochman. New York: Frederick Ungar,1972. 239 pp.

Edward Murray. The Cinematic Imagination: Writers and the Motion Pictures. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1972. 330 pp.

Geoffrey Wagner. The Novel and the Cinema. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 394 pp. $15.00.