Sarah Cardwell

Adaptation revisited

Television and the classic novel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a critical reappraisal of a prolific and popular genre, as well as bringing new material into the broader field of Television Studies. Surveys the traditional discourses about adaptation, unearthing the unspoken assumptions and common misconceptions that underlie them and explores the problems inherent in previous approaches, developing an original perspective that considers the particularly televisual nature of this genre. Examines four major British serials: 'Brideshead Revisited', 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Moll Flanders', and 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' revealing the genre's importance in constituting and moderating our understanding of the past and of television itself. The first sustained and coherent book on the subject in almost a decade.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 317g
• ISBN-13: 9780719060465
• ISBN-10: 071906046X
• Artikelnr.: 22186878

Autorenporträt

Sarah Cardwell is Honorary Fellow in the School of Arts at the University of Kent

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Re:writing
adaptations 1. What is (an) adaptation? 2. Criticism revealed 3. Theory
revisited 4. Television adaptations in the televisual context Part II: The
adaptations Introduction to Part II 5. Brideshead Revisited (1981) 6. Pride
and Prejudice (1995) 7. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
(1996) 8. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996) 9. Reconfiguring the genre
Bibliography Filmography Index