The Classic Novel: From Page to Screen - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719052300 ISBN 13: 9780719052309

Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2000

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Reseña del editor:

A critical examination of the long established tradition of adapting classic novels to film or TV screen. It is historically wide-ranging, encompassing novelists from Jane Austen to Michael Ondaatje. The early cinema ransacked literature for stories suitable for retelling in moving pictures. Dickens was particular popular in the silent days and has remained so every since. As the art of the cinema matured, and cinematography, music, special effects and sound were improved, the art of dramatization began to produce high quality version of respected novels. This service to literature was one way the cinema gained respectablity. The authors in this book analyze a wide variety of literary dramatizations including "The Old Curiosity Shop" (1935), various versions of "Dracula", the BBC's recent versions of "Middlemarch" and "Pride and Prejudice" and the award-winning version of "The English Patient".

Biografía del autor:

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

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• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0719052300
• ISBN 13: 9780719052309
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Herausgeber: Sheen Erica, Giddings Robert