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 ...
