The Classic Novel

From Page to Screen
Herausgeber: Sheen, Erica; Giddings, Robert

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Produktbeschreibung

This book critically examines the long established tradition of adapting classic novels to film or TV screen.. An emerging area of interest - the relationship between film and literature and the way cinema and television have translated classic novels into moving pictures from the 30s to the 90s.. A wide-ranging but focused collection that is bang up to date and free of media jargon that looks at both the film and the book.. Includes discussion of: The English Patient, Pride and Prejudice and Middlemarch, Pickwick Papers, Dracula, Dickens, Conrad, Hardy and Waugh.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9780719052316
• ISBN-10: 0719052319
• Artikelnr.: 21381660

Autorenporträt

Robert Giddings is Professor of Communication and Culture at Bournemouth University. Erica Sheen is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Sheffield

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Pickwick Papers: beyond that place and time (Robert
Giddings) 3. Where the garment gapes: Faithfulness and promiscuity in the
1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice (Erica Sheen) 4. Sentimentality, sex and
sadism: the 1935 version of Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop (Jenny
Dennett) 5. Beholding a magic panorama: television and the illustration of
Middlemarch (Ian Mackillop & Alison Platt) 6. Hardy, history and hokum
(Keith Selby) 7. A taste of the gothic: Film and television versions of
Dracula (Jonathon Bignell) 8. Times of death in Joseph Conrad's The Secret
Agent and Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage (Suzanne Spiedel) 9. Lids tend to
come off: David Lean's film of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India (Neil
Sinyard) 10. Brideshead Revisited revisited (Fred Inglis) 11. Piecing
together a mirage: Adapting the English Patient for the screen (Bronwen
Thomas)