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...abrupt, resonant dialogue that forms the midsection of Bradstreet, Berryman was influenced by Anna Karenina and by Saul Bellow's novel Augie March, which he had just read in manuscript: "very ambitious, totally unlike most modern novels. It threw me the feeling that if I appeared to go outside the ordinary sort of business, that would be all right." The absence of any clear poetic precedent forces the reader to make a major revision of his conventional expectations...
David O. (for Oliver) Selznick grew up in the magic, flickering light of the silent films, came to maturity as Hollywood was mastering the revolutionary complexities of sound, set his seal as a producer on the industry by proving that literary classics such as Anna Karenina, A Tale of Two Cities, Little Lord Fauntleroy and Little Women could be transferred to the screen with fidelity and power. Other Selznick productions included King Kong, Dinner at Eight and A Star Is Born. And for ten years running, movie exhibitors ranked him No. 1 producer of box-office successes. But even...
...literature, we've established the obvious. What is accomplished by being specific? A reader's imagination is a more potent descriptive power than any author has. When everything is told, what you're left with is pretty crude and commonplace. The love scenes in Anna Karenina are infinitely more intimate than any explicit sex scene I can recall...
...popular press, films and television-what we call the mass media-are pouring forth the enormous flood of dreams that we now call mass culture, which our intellectual culture seems to oppose. It is true that the mental level of the films based on War and Peace and Anna Karenina is incomparably inferior to that of Tolstoy's novels; it is true that the mental level of the cinema, and particularly its emotional level, is quite low. But without the film, the millions who have seen Anna Karenina would never have read the novel. Westerns have not replaced Plato...
...ANNA KARENINA. A serialized adaptation by H. Oldfield Box. (BEC) (End of Series...