Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part I: Finding the Agatha Christie Film Form, 1928-37 -- Chapter 1: The Silent Adventures -- The Passing of Mr Quinn (1928) -- Die Abenteuer GmbH [The Secret Adversary] (1929) -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Poirot Comes to the Silver Screen -- Alibi (1931) -- Black Coffee (1931) -- Lord Edgware Dies (1934) -- Love from a Stranger (1937) -- Notes -- Part II: Experiments in Television, 1937-62 -- Chapter 3: The Early Television Adaptations -- Christie's Early Relationship with the BBC -- The Wasp's Nest (1937) Love from a Stranger (1938) -- Three Blind Mice (1947) -- 1949 in Television -- Notes -- Chapter 4: New Prospects and Problems in Television -- Christie on American Television in the 1950s -- Christie on British Television in the 1950s -- Christie on 1960s Television -- Notes -- Part III: Agatha Christie Films, 1945-65 -- Chapter 5: Christie Films Make an Impact -- And Then There Were None (1945) -- Love from a Stranger (1947) -- Witness for the Prosecution (1957) -- The Spider's Web (1960) -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple -- Murder She Said (1961) Murder at the Gallop (1963) -- Murder Most Foul (1963) -- Murder Ahoy (1964) -- The Alphabet Murders (1965) -- Notes -- Part IV: Prestige Films and Beyond, 1965-87 -- Chapter 7: A New Era on Screen -- Endless Night (1972) -- Murder on the Orient Express (1974) -- Ten Little Indians (1974) -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot -- Death on the Nile (1978) -- Agatha (1979) -- The Mirror Crack'd (1980) -- Evil Under the Sun (1982) -- Ustinov's Poirot Moves to Television -- Appointment with Death (1988) -- Notes -- Part V: Rethinking Agatha Christie Adaptations, 1979-95 Chapter 9: Christie Comes Back to Television -- The Agatha Christie Hour (1982) -- Tommy and Tuppence on Television -- Murder by the Book and The Last Seance (1986) -- Notes -- Chapter 10: New Approaches -- Murder is Easy (1982), Sparkling Cyanide (1983) and Witness for the Prosecution (1982) -- Helen Hayes as Miss Marple -- Ordeal by Innocence (1985) -- The Man in the Brown Suit (1989) -- Ten Little Indians (1989) -- Innocent Lies (1995) -- Notes -- Part VI: Televising the Canon, 1984-2013 -- Chapter 11: Agatha Christie's Miss Marple -- The Mystery of Crooked House -- Spider's Web (1982) The Beginnings of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple (1984-92) -- Miss Marple Goes Back to the Beginning -- Completing the Canon -- Notes -- Chapter 12: Agatha Christie's Poirot -- The Return of Poirot -- A Change of Pace for Poirot -- Poirot's Hiatus and Return -- A Change of Style for Poirot -- Poirot's Final Curtain -- Notes -- Part VII: International Adaptations -- Chapter 13: European Adaptations -- Germany -- France -- Other European Countries -- Notes -- Chapter 14: Adaptations in the Rest of the World -- India -- Russia -- Japan -- Notes -- Part VIII: Remaking and Reworking, 1999- Chapter 15: Christie with a Twist
Kommunikations-, Informations- und Medienzentrum der Universität Hohenheim
Inter-library loan:
No loan of volumes, only paper copies will be sent
Intro -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part I: Finding the Agatha Christie Film Form, 1928-37 -- Chapter 1: The Silent Adventures -- The Passing of Mr Quinn (1928) -- Die Abenteuer GmbH [The Secret Adversary] (1929) -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Poirot Comes to the Silver Screen -- Alibi (1931) -- Black Coffee (1931) -- Lord Edgware Dies (1934) -- Love from a Stranger (1937) -- Notes -- Part II: Experiments in Television, 1937-62 -- Chapter 3: The Early Television Adaptations -- Christie's Early Relationship with the BBC -- The Wasp's Nest (1937) -- Love from a Stranger (1938) -- Three Blind Mice (1947) -- 1949 in Television -- Notes -- Chapter 4: New Prospects and Problems in Television -- Christie on American Television in the 1950s -- Christie on British Television in the 1950s -- Christie on 1960s Television -- Notes -- Part III: Agatha Christie Films, 1945-65 -- Chapter 5: Christie Films Make an Impact -- And Then There Were None (1945) -- Love from a Stranger (1947) -- Witness for the Prosecution (1957) -- The Spider's Web (1960) -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple -- Murder She Said (1961) -- Murder at the Gallop (1963) -- Murder Most Foul (1963) -- Murder Ahoy (1964) -- The Alphabet Murders (1965) -- Notes -- Part IV: Prestige Films and Beyond, 1965-87 -- Chapter 7: A New Era on Screen -- Endless Night (1972) -- Murder on the Orient Express (1974) -- Ten Little Indians (1974) -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot -- Death on the Nile (1978) -- Agatha (1979) -- The Mirror Crack'd (1980) -- Evil Under the Sun (1982) -- Ustinov's Poirot Moves to Television -- Appointment with Death (1988) -- Notes -- Part V: Rethinking Agatha Christie Adaptations, 1979-95 -- Chapter 9: Christie Comes Back to Television -- The Agatha Christie Hour (1982).