Jane Austen on Screen

Jane Austen on Screen
ISBN-10
0521797284
ISBN-13
9780521797283
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
284
Language
English
Published
2003-10-09
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Authors
Andrew Macdonald, Gina Macdonald

Description

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.

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