Jane Austen on Screen Paperback / softback
Edited by Gina (Nicholls State University, Louisiana) MacDonald, Andrew (Loyola University, New Orleans) MacDonald
Part of the On Screen series
Paperback / softback
Description
Jane Austen on Screen is a collection of essays exploring 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.
Theoretical issues are explored in balance with the practical concerns of literature-to-film conversions: casting choices, authenticity of settings, script 'amputations' of the original prose, anachronisms, relevance for modern mass audiences, and the intertextuality informing the production of much-remade works.
This comprehensive study, including an exhaustive Austen bibliography and filmography, will be of interest to students and teachers alike.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:300 pages, 19 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:09/10/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521797283
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:300 pages, 19 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:09/10/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521797283
