Thomas Leitch

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According to Wikipedia, Thomas M. Leitch is an American academic and film scholar, the author of several authoritative books on film studies and one on Wikipedia. Early life Leitch was born in Orange, New Jersey, and educated at Columbia University, where in 1972 he graduated BA magna cum laude in English and Comparative Literature, and then at Yale University, where he became an MA in 1973 and a PhD in 1976.

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Thomas Leitch's Published Works

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Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ (2007) (231)
Twelve Fallacies in Contemporary Adaptation Theory (2004) (184)
Adaptation Studies at a Crossroads (2008) (109)
What Stories Are: Narrative Theory and Interpretation (1986) (79)
Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies (2017) (68)
Adaptation, the Genre (2008) (46)
Twice-Told Tales: The Rhetoric of the Remake (1990) (44)
Crime Films: Frontmatter (2002) (26)
Adaptation and Intertextuality, or, What Isn't an Adaptation, and What does it Matter? (2012) (25)
Find the director and other Hitchcock games (1992) (14)
For (Against) a Theory of Rereading (2009) (11)
The World According to Teenpix (1992) (10)
The encyclopedia of Alfred Hitchcock (2002) (9)
History as Adaptation (2015) (8)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Adaptation * Especially If You're Looking Forwards Rather Than Back (2005) (7)
To what is fiction committed (1983) (7)
Adaptations without Sources: The Adventures of Robin Hood (2008) (7)
Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age (2014) (5)
101 Ways to Tell Hitchcock's Psycho from Gus Van Sant's (2000) (4)
A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock: Leitch/A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock (2011) (4)
A companion to Alfred Hitchcock (2014) (4)
There’s No Nostalgia Like Hollywood Nostalgia (2018) (4)
Hitchcock without Hitchcock (2003) (3)
The Outer Circle: Hitchcock on Television (1999) (3)
Across the Russian Border (2018) (3)
Mind the Gaps (2017) (3)
How to Steal from Hitchcock (2006) (3)
The Many Pasts of Detective Fiction (2020) (2)
The Case for Studying Popular Culture (1985) (2)
2 HITCHCOCK AND HIS WRITERS Authorship and Authority in Adaptation (2008) (2)
It's the Cold War, Stupid: An Obvious History of the Political Hitchcock (1999) (2)
Back to Basics: A Meta-Foundational Approach to Adaptation Studies (2015) (1)
The Sounds of Hitchcock's Silence (2019) (1)
A Theory of Adaptation (2007) (1)
Enough about adaptation: Let's talk about adapting (2017) (1)
What Isn't a Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and, if You Know that, then what Isn’t a Cross-Cultural Text? (2018) (1)
Collaborating with the Dead: Adapters as Secret Agents (2020) (1)
The Editor as Hero: Henry James and the New York Edition (2010) (1)
Adaptation as Migration (2022) (1)
The Pulitzers Go to Hollywood (2017) (1)
The Dark Side of Adaptation (2018) (1)
1 Across the Russian Border (2016) (1)
Not just the facts (2018) (1)
Introduction: Adaptation and the Battle of, and for, and over, and within the Public Humanities (2021) (1)
Crime Films: Historical and Cultural Overview (2002) (0)
Twentieth-Century American Fiction on Screen: The texts behind The Killers (2007) (0)
Crime Films: Critical Overview (2002) (0)
‘The Ultimate Version of Who You are Now’: Performing the Gentleman Spy (2017) (0)
Crime Films: The Problem of the Crime Film (2002) (0)
Reading like adults, performing like children: Two ways of experiencing adaptations (2012) (0)
Crime Films: Murder on the Orient Express, Blue Velvet , and the Unofficial-Detective Film (2002) (0)
Nobody’s little girl: Nancy Drew goes to the movies (2020) (0)
Queering the Cattle: Hitchcock and Performance (2021) (0)
Regular Section Book Review: Gates, P. (2006). Detecting Men: Masculinity and the Hollywood Detective Film. Albany: State University of New York Press (2008) (0)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Hitchcock (2017) (0)
Crime Films: Basic Instinct and the Erotic Thriller (2002) (0)
From Historical Adaptation to History as Adaptation (2014) (0)
The History of American Literature on Film (2019) (0)
Crime Films: The Godfather and the Gangster Film (2002) (0)
Lionel Trilling: An Annotated Bibliography (1992) (0)
Crime Films: Chinatown and the Private-Eye Film (2002) (0)
Instead of the real thing: Six ways to talk about what Hollywood does to European films (2019) (0)
Games archcriminals play: Mabuse vs Fantômas (2023) (0)
Michael J. Prince, Adapting the Beat Poets: Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Kerouac on Screen (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016, $75.00). Pp. xxx + 139. isbn978 1 4422 7324 5. (2018) (0)
Know-Nothing Entertainment: What to Say to Your Friends on the Right, and Why It Won't Do Any Good (1997) (0)
Hitchcock's Lives (2012) (0)
Strange Bedfellows: The Post-Literary Novel, the Devoutly Literary Novel, and the Media Revolution That Was Supposed to Kill Them but Gave Them Life Instead (2012) (0)
Thirteen Rounds, No Decision, for Translation and Adaptation (2013) (0)
Crime Films: Double Indemnity and the Film Noir (2002) (0)
Crime Films: Conclusion: What Good Are Crime Films? (2002) (0)
New! Expanded! Unimproved! (2013) (0)
Crime Films: Selected Bibliography (2002) (0)
Crime Films: Filmography/Videography (2002) (0)
Murderous Victims in the Secret Agent and Sabotage (1986) (0)
Crime Films: Bullitt and the Police Film (2002) (0)
Twice upon a Time (2014) (0)
Scripting the saints (2019) (0)
Understanding Civil Affairs Operations: A Qualitative Exploration of Self-Reported Civil Affairs Operational Experiences (2018) (0)
Crime Films: Reversal of Fortune and the Lawyer Film (2002) (0)
Awakening from Hitchcock’s Nightmares (2021) (0)
Truth, Justice, and the Gentile American Way: A Reply to William E.H. Meyer, Jr (1999) (0)
Fury and the Victim Film (2002) (0)
Post-Literary Adaptation (2004) (0)
The man that wasn’t used up (2015) (0)
Subversive Adaptations: Czech Literature on Screen Behind the Iron Curtain (2018) (0)
Crime Films: Fargo and the Crime Comedy (2002) (0)
Nobody Here But Us Killers: The Disavowal of Violence in Recent American Films (1994) (0)
CLOSURE AND TELEOLOGY IN DICKENS (2016) (0)
From the Editor (2010) (0)

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University of Delaware