Patricia Highsmith on Screen

1. Introduction: Patricia Highsmith on Screen, Douglas McFarland and Wieland Schwanebeck.- 2. The Dark Side of Adaptation, Thomas Leitch.- Section I: Doubles, Copies, and Strangers.- 3. "I Meet a Lot of Guys--But Not Many Like You": Strangers and Types in Highsmith's and Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, Bran Nicol.- 4. Strangers on a Park Bench: From Highsmith to Alfred Hitchcock to Woody Allen, Klara Stephanie Szlezák.- 5. Tom Ripley's Talent, Murray Pomerance.- 6. Ripley Under Ground and Its Illegitimate Heirs, Wieland Schwanebeck.- Section II: Queer Encounters.- 7. Queer Ripley: Minghella, Highsmith, and the Anti-Social.- David Greven.- 8. The Price of Salt, Carol, and Queer Narrative Desire(s), Alison L. McKee.- 9. "Easy Living": From The Price of Salt (78) to Carol (EP), Robert Miklitsch.- Section III: Aesthetic, Mythic, and Cultural Transaction.- 10. Adapting Irony: Claude Chabrol's The Cry of the Owl, Douglas McFarland.- 11. With Friends Like These: Wim Wenders' The American Friend as Noir Allegory, Christopher Breu.- 12. Hans Geissendörfer's Psychological Noir: West-German Adaptations of Patricia Highsmith Novels, Erin Altman and William Mahan.- 13. Authorship and Scales of Adaptation in Chillers, Kristopher Mecholsky.- 14. The Two Faces of January: Theseus and the Minotaur, Catherine McFarland.- Section IV: Adapters in Conversation.- 15. Memories of The American Friend, Wim Wenders.- 16. "Highsmith really writes films", Hans W. Geißendörfer.- 17. "An interesting lack of sentimentality", Hossein Amini.- 18. "Highsmith was the queen of guilt", Phyllis Nagy.