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Author | : Gina MacDonald |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2003-10-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521797283 |
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This collection of essays explores the literary and cinematic implications of translating Austen's prose into film. Contributors raise questions of how prose fiction and cinema differ, of how mass commercial audiences require changes to script and character, and of how continually remade films evoke memories of earlier productions. The essays represent widely divergent perspectives, from literary 'purists' suspicious of filmic renderings of Austen to film-makers who see the text as a stimulus for producing exceptional cinema. This comprehensive study will be of interest to students and teachers alike.
Author | : Linda Troost |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780813190068 |
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In 1995 and 1996 six film or television adaptations of Jane Austen's novels were produced -- an unprecedented number. More amazing, all were critical and/or box office successes. What accounts for this explosion of interest? Much of the appeal of these films lies in our nostalgic desire at the end of the millennium for an age of greater politeness and sexual reticence. Austen's ridicule of deceit and pretentiousness also appeals to our fin de siècle sensibilities. The novels were changed, however, to enhance their appeal to a wide popular audience, and the revisions reveal much about our own culture and its values. These recent productions espouse explicitly twentieth-century feminist notions and reshape the Austenian hero to make him conform to modern expectations. Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield present fourteen essays examining the phenomenon of Jane Austen as cultural icon, providing thoughtful and sympathetic insights on the films through a variety of critical approaches. The contributors debate whether these productions enhance or undercut the subtle feminism that Austen promoted in her novels. From Persuasion to Pride and Prejudice, from the three Emmas (including Clueless ) to Sense and Sensibility, these films succeed because they flatter our intelligence and education. And they have as much to tell us about ourselves as they do about the world of Jane Austen. This second edition includes a new chapter on the recent film version of Mansfield Park.
Author | : Marc Di Paolo |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781433100000 |
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This work of literary and film criticism examines all eight filmed adaptations of Jane Austen's Emma produced between 1948 and 1996 as vastly different interpretations of the source novel. Instead of condemning the movies and television specials as being «not as good as the book, » Marc DiPaolo considers how each adaptation might be understood as a valid «reading» of Austen's text. For example, he demonstrates how the Gwyneth Paltrow film Emma is both a romance and a female coming-of-age story, the 1972 BBC miniseries dramatizes Emma's world as claustrophobic and Emma herself as suffering from depression, and the modern-day teen comedy Clueless comes closest of all to bringing a feminist reading of the novel to the screen. Each version illuminates a different, legitimate way of reading the novel that is rewarding for Austen fans, scholars, and students alike.
Author | : Sue Parrill |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2010-06-28 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0786481412 |
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Jane Austen's career as a novelist began in 1811 with the publication of Sense and Sensibility. Her work was finally adapted for the big screen with the 1940 filming of Pride and Prejudice (very successful at the box office). No other film adaptation of an Austen novel was made for theatrical release until 1995. Amazingly, during 1995 and 1996, six film and television adaptations appeared, first Clueless, then Persuasion, followed by Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, the Miramax Emma, and the Meridian/A&E Emma. This book traces the history of film and television adaptations (nearly 30 to date) of Jane Austen manuscripts, compares the adaptations to the manuscripts, compares the way different adaptations treat the novels, and analyzes the adaptations as examples of cinematic art. The first of seven chapters explains why the novels of Jane Austen have become a popular source of film and television adaptations. The following six chapters each cover one of Austen's novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey. Each chapter begins with a summary of the main events of the novel. Then a history of the adaptations is presented followed by an analysis of the unique qualities of each adaptation, a comparison of these adaptations to each other and to the novels on which they are based, and a reflection of relevant film and literary criticism as it applies to the adaptations.
Author | : Devoney Looser |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2017-06-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1421422832 |
Download The Making of Jane Austen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Whether you're a devoted Janeite or simply Jane-curious, The Making of Jane Austen will have you thinking about how a literary icon is made, transformed, and handed down from generation to generation.
Author | : Deborah Cartmell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2007-05-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139827553 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, genre and adaptations for children. There are also case studies, such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the nineteenth-century novel and modernism, which allow the reader to place adaptations of the work of writers within a wider context. An interview with Andrew Davies, whose work includes Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Bleak House (2005), reveals the practical choices and challenges that face the professional writer and adaptor. The Companion as a whole provides an extensive survey of an increasingly popular field of study.
Author | : Deborah Cartmell |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2010-09-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1408105934 |
Download Screen Adaptations: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An in-depth study of the relationship between Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and its various screen versions.
Author | : Kristen Bird |
Publisher | : MIRA |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2022-02-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0369703405 |
Download The Night She Went Missing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"A great new voice in suspense...Perfect for fans of Big Little Lies who thrive on stories of deceit in the suburban world.” —J. T. Ellison, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Her Dark Lies "Pitch perfect suspense...The best debut I’ve read this year.” --Allison Brennan, New York Times bestselling author An intriguing and twisty domestic suspense about loyalty and deceit in a tight-knit Texas community where parents are known to behave badly and people are not always who they appear to be. Emily, a popular but bookish prep school senior, goes missing after a night out with friends. She was last seen leaving a party with Alex, a football player with a dubious reputation. But no one is talking. Now three mothers, Catherine, Leslie and Morgan, friends turned frenemies, have their lives turned upside down as they are forced to look to their own children—and each other’s—for answers to questions they don’t want to ask. Each mother is sure she knows who is responsible, but they all have their own secrets to keep and reputations to protect. And the lies they tell themselves and each other may just have the potential to be lethal in this riveting debut.
Author | : Emma Thompson |
Publisher | : Newmarket Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2007-07-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Originally published: London: Bloomsbury, 1995.
Author | : Edward Copeland |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1997-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521498678 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A comprehensive guide to Austen's works in the contexts of her contemporary world and present-day criticism.