Bernard Herrmann score adapted by Elmer Bernstein
RILM posted:
"For his 1991
remake of J. Lee Thompson’s 1962 film Cape fear, Martin Scorsese had the
Bernard Herrmann score of the original adapted by Elmer Bernstein. The score
was effectively re-composed for the later film, with Bernstein taking its basic
components and redeploying them ..." Continued here ...
Oxford Journals has launched an essay prize on the subject of 'adaptation', in their new Adaptation journal, which was only launched last year:-
"About the Adaptation Essay Prize
The Adaptation Essay Prize is a new innovation from the journal, launched in 2011 to encourage the best new scholarship in the field. While the journal publishes many articles which focus on the relationship between literature and film, the Editors are particularly keen to publish work which challenges the primacy of that relationship: this might include essays on computer games, opera, popular music, animation, genre fiction or work with a wider theoretical sweep."
Find out more here.
