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The introduction traces Highsmith’s status in contemporary scholarship and her long adaptation history, starting with Hitchcock’s film version of her novel Strangers on a Train (1950). Strangers not only paved the way for nearly seven decades of Highsmith cinema (including works by renowned auteurs like Wim Wenders and Claude Chabrol), but it also started a long and difficult relationship between Highsmith and the medium of film. The chapter not only explores the consequences of Highsmith’s association with Hitchcockian cinema for her adaptation history, it also summarizes the author’s rather divergent reactions to adaptations made of her novels and introduces the structure of the book.
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McFarland, D., Schwanebeck, W. (2018). Introduction: Patricia Highsmith on Screen. In: Schwanebeck, W., McFarland, D. (eds) Patricia Highsmith on Screen. Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96050-0_1
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