Download or read book International Guide to Literature on Film written by Tom Costello and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive directory lists about 7,500 films based on over 5,000 of all significant works of imaginative literature from all over the world. The films were made during 1930-90 and include cartoon animations and musicals. The reader can find information quickly due to the alphabetical listing of authors by name and index of book and film titles in the appendix. Entries include the following basic bibliographic/filmographic information: author, nationality, abbreviation of the type of work (short story, play, etc.), book title, publication date of literary original, film title, country of production, release date, director, film's duration in minutes.