This book is the first full-length study to focus on the various film adaptations of Patricia Highsmiths novels, which have been a popular source for adaptation since Alfred HitchcocksStrangers on a Train (1952). The collection of essays examines films such asThe Talented Mr. Ripley,The Two Faces of January, andCarol, includes interviews with Highsmith adaptors and provides a comprehensive filmography of all existing Highsmith adaptations. Particular attention is paid to queer subtexts, mythological underpinnings, philosophical questioning, contrasting media environments and formal conventions in diverse generic contexts. Produced over the space of seventy years, these adaptations reflect broad cultural and material shifts in film production and critical approaches to film studies. The book is thus not only of interest to Highsmith admirers but to anyone interested in adaptation and transatlantic film history.

Wieland Schwanebeck is Assistant Lecturer at the Institute of English and American Studies at Dresden University of Technology, Germany. He has recently editedReassessing the Hitchcock Touch (2017).Douglas McFarland is Retired Professor of English and Classical Studies at Flagler College, USA. He is the co-editor ofJohn Huston as Adaptor (2017).

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 Highsmiths and HitchcocksStrangers on a Train, Bran Nicol.- 4. Strangers on a Park Bench: From Highsmith to Alfred Hitchcock to Woody Allen, Klara Stephanie Szlezák.- 5. Tom Ripleys 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: FromThe Price of Salt (78) toCarol(EP), Robert Miklitsch.- Section III: Aesthetic, Mythic, and Cultural Transaction.- 10. Adapting Irony: Claude ChabrolsThe Cry of the Owl,Douglas McFarland.- 11. With Friends Like These: Wim WendersThe American Friend as Noir Allegory, Christopher Breu.- 12. Hans Geissendörfers Psychological Noir: West-German Adaptations of Patricia Highsmith Novels, Erin Altman and William Mahan.- 13. Authorship and Scales of Adaptation inChillers, Kristopher Mecholsky.- 14. The Two Faces of January: Theseus and the Minotaur, Catherine McFarland.- Section IV: Adapters in Conversation.- 15. Memories ofThe 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.