Genre
Adaptations of Classic American Literature
Films drawn from the American literary canon. The question every entry raises: what does the camera add that the page could not, and what does it lose?
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Robert Mulligan · 1962
The Grapes of Wrath
John Ford · 1940
East of Eden
Elia Kazan · 1955
No Country for Old Men
Joel Coen · 2007
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