First Advisor

Kristin Hole

Date of Award

Spring 6-9-2023

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Film and University Honors

Department

Film

Language

English

Subjects

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) -- Public opinion, Film adaptations, Farewell to arms (Motion picture : 1932), Killers (Motion picture : 1946), Old man and the sea (Motion picture : 1958)

DOI

10.15760/honors.1358

Abstract

Little attention has been paid to how film adaptations affected Hemingway’s popular reputation (and vice versa). This thesis traces Hemingway's celebrity through the case studies A Farewell to Arms (1932), The Killers (1946), and The Old Man and the Sea (1958). It details their production histories, analyzes the changes made from page to screen, and discusses the contextual motivations behind such divergences. Finally, it considers the ways in which the filmmakers adapted texts of different lengths to fit feature length runtimes and, in doing so, found cinematic equivalences of literary form.

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Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/40258

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