lit flick

English

Noun

lit flick (plural lit flicks)

1. (slang, film, television) A film based on a literary work.
   • 1995 September 7, Ted Samsel, “Prufrock question”, in rec.arts.books‎^[1] (Usenet):

     The young Tom Eliot (played by Willem Dafoe) walked upon a beach in the recent Lit-Flick TOM & VIV. I saw no peaches eaten.

   • 2000 February 2, Ted Samsel, “Literary Criticism -- why has it gotten weird and is it getting more normal”, in rec.arts.books‎^[2] (Usenet):

     You must be waiting with baited breath for the lit-flick (humorous) about Jacquelyn Susann writing THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.

   • 2008 May 16, Sandro, “movie review: The Other Boleyn Girl”, in aus.culture.gothic‎^[3] (Usenet):

     Seeing the book (and, to a lesser extent, the film) advertised gives me a strong sense that it’s chick lit/flick material.

   • 2008, Vibe, volume 16, numbers 1-16, page 100:

     Jeff Clanagan, who ran Master P's, No Limit Films at the time, was responsible for figuring out how to get the dimly lit flick into theaters.

   • 2011, Robert Gottlieb, Lives and Letters, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 374:

     She's not a genius like the others—far from it—and she already has her man (poor Dash), but Julia, based on Hellman’s barefaced fabrications in Pentimento, gives us several of the essential conceits of the lit-flick genre. To begin with, she too has writer's block.

   • 2015, Jerome De Groot, Remaking History: The Past in Contemporary Historical Fictions, Taylor & Francis, page 185:

     Critique of the costume drama in many of its guises - period drama, lit flick, frock flick, historical film, heritage film, adaptation, costume series - has often emphasized its conservatism and the lack of dynamism in its audience.

   • 2016, Casey Charles, Critical Queer Studies: Law, Film, and Fiction in Contemporary American Culture, Taylor & Francis, page 171:

     By portraying the successful defense against criminal obscenity charges for a poem that celebrates queer sex, Epstein and Friedman’s “lit flick” arguably renders a poetics of the unrepressed, paving the way for a new queer political aesthetic.