Liora Brosh

Screening Novel Women (eBook, PDF)

From British Domestic Fiction to Film

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

From Hollywood classics like Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights to the 1990s wave of Jane Austen films, adaptations of the British Nineteenth-century novel have been sensationally popular. This book examines how British and American filmmakers used the domestic novels of the past to construct stable gender ideals for the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 173
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230582415
• Artikelnr.: 45964992

Autorenporträt

LIORA BROSH is Lecturer in Literature and Film at Monmouth University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE: THE 1930s AND 1940s: HOLLYWOOD AND BRITAIN Consuming Women: Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights Maternal Desire: Jane Eyre Recovering Victorian Ideals: The Mill on the Floss Twisted Femininities: Great Expectations and Oliver Twist PART TWO: THE 1990s: CONVERGENCES Violence, Liberation, and Desire Re-creating the Classics: The Piano Notes Bibliography Index