Ms Boyum, Professor of English and Communication Arts at New York University, studies film adaptations of 17 modern classics of fiction, including Women in Love, Ragtime, Tess, A Clockwork Orange, Lord of the Flies, Death in Venice, Slaughterhouse Five, Swann in Love, the works of directors like Visconti, Polanski, Milos Forman, Peter Brook, Stanley Kubrick, Ken Russell, Francis Ford Coppolla, Schlondorff, Jack Clayton and Karel Reisz, from works of fiction by Lawrence, Conrad, Hardy, James, Mann, Fowles, Golding, Doctorow, Lowry, Scott-Fitzgerald, and Vonnegut, sometimes from scenarios by Pinter, Jean-Claude Carriere and Coppolla. She goes into the history, the aesthetics and the results of these artistic collaborations bridging the gap between the written narrative and cinema, to unravel the rhetoric of adaptation.
