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As a highly visual writer, Ray Bradbury's works have frequently
been adapted for film and television. One of the most stylized and
haunting dramatizations is Francois Truffaut's 1966 film adaptation
of Fahrenheit 451. For this fifth volume of The New Ray Bradbury
Review, guest editor Phil Nichols brings together essays and
articles that reflect upon Bradbury's classic novel and Truffaut's
enduring low- tech science fiction film, fifty years after its
release. French film director and writer Francois Truffaut was a
major force in world cinema. Beginning with his first days as a
firebrand film critic and early years as a highly original
director, Truffaut sustained a career that brought him numerous
accolades, including an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language
film. Yet Fahrenheit 451-his only film in English and his only
foray into science fiction-is often overshadowed by the
considerable triumphs of his other works, like The 400 Blows, Jules
and Jim, and Day for Night. Similarly, while science fiction
scholars often present the film as a significant work, they
sometimes see it as a flawed adaptation, somehow less than its
source, Ray Bradbury's classic 1953 novel of book-burning firemen.
The articles in this volume represent the first scholarly
investigation of Truffaut's film and Bradbury's novel together.
They lay out the key critical issues in comparing book and film and
novelist and filmmaker, discuss various aspects of Bradbury's and
Truffaut's narrative strategies in creating a world where books are
systematically burned, consider the film's screenplay and
Bradbury's own creative reactions to Truffaut, and examine the
reception of the film among various audiences and critics. The New
Ray Bradbury Review and the multivolume Collected Stories of Ray
Bradbury are the primary publications of the Center for Ray
Bradbury Studies, the major archive of Bradbury's writings located
at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI).
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