Jane Austen On Film And Television

Author : Sue Parrill
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786481415

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Jane Austen on Film and Television by Sue Parrill Pdf

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 : Linda Troost,Sayre N. Greenfield
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813190061

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Jane Austen in Hollywood by Linda Troost,Sayre N. Greenfield Pdf

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 : Gina MacDonald,Andrew MacDonald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521797284

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Jane Austen on Screen by Gina MacDonald,Andrew MacDonald Pdf

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 : Srividhya Swaminathan,Steven W. Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351800945

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The Cinematic Eighteenth Century by Srividhya Swaminathan,Steven W. Thomas Pdf

This collection explores how film and television depict the complex and diverse milieu of the eighteenth century as a literary, historical, and cultural space. Topics range from adaptations of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (The Martian) to historical fiction on the subjects of slavery (Belle), piracy (Crossbones and Black Sails), monarchy (The Madness of King George and The Libertine), print culture (Blackadder and National Treasure), and the role of women (Marie Antoinette, The Duchess, and Outlander). This interdisciplinary collection draws from film theory and literary theory to discuss how film and television allows for critical re-visioning as well as revising of the cultural concepts in literary and extra-literary writing about the historical period.

Author : Deborah Cartmell
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408105931

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Screen Adaptations: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Deborah Cartmell Pdf

An in-depth study of the relationship between Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and its various screen versions.

Author : Marc Di Paolo
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1433100002

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Emma Adapted by Marc Di Paolo Pdf

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 : Laurie Viera Rigler
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101213766

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Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom or even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England. Who but an Austen addict like herself could concoct such a fantasy? Not only is Courtney stuck in another woman’s life, she is forced to pretend she actually is that woman; and despite knowing nothing about her, she manages to fool even the most astute observer. But not even her level of Austen mania has prepared Courtney for the chamber pots and filthy coaching inns of nineteenth-century England, let alone the realities of being a single woman who must fend off suffocating chaperones, condom-less seducers, and marriages of convenience. This looking-glass Austen world is not without its charms, however. There are journeys to Bath and London, balls in the Assembly Rooms, and the enigmatic Mr. Edgeworth, who may not be a familiar species of philanderer after all. But when Courtney’s borrowed brain serves up memories that are not her own, the ultimate identity crisis ensues. Will she ever get her real life back, and does she even want to?

Author : Laura Wade
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781786826374

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The Watsons by Laura Wade Pdf

What happens when the writer loses the plot? Emma Watson is nineteen and new in town. She's been cut off by her rich aunt and dumped back in the family home. Emma and her sisters must marry, fast. If not, they face poverty, spinsterhood, or worse: an eternity with their boorish brother and his awful wife. Luckily there are plenty of potential suitors to dance with, from flirtatious Tom Musgrave to castle-owning Lord Osborne, who's as awkward as he is rich. So far so familiar. But there's a problem: Jane Austen didn't finish the story. Who will write Emma's happy ending now? Based on her incomplete novel, this sparklingly witty play looks under the bonnet of Jane Austen and asks: what can characters do when their author abandons them?

Author : Suzanne R. Pucci,James Thompson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791487389

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Jane Austen and Co. by Suzanne R. Pucci,James Thompson Pdf

Examines recent Austen remakes as well as other “post-heritage” films and television shows to show how the past is reshaped for a contemporary market.

Author : Sarah Mallory
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488021138

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The Duke's Secret Heir by Sarah Mallory Pdf

"This, madam, changes everything." Years ago, in the Egyptian desert, Ellen Tatham fell wildly in love and exchanged vows with Max Colnebrooke. But, when made to believe Max could not be trusted, she fled… Now, Max is back in England to take up the reins as Duke of Rossenhall. And when he spies Ellen at a ball, the sparks are hard to contain! Little does Max know, though, that Ellen has a secret… And soon, he must learn to embrace an unexpected heir, and an unexpected—and disconcertingly defiant—duchess! PRAISE FOR THE DUKE'S SECRET HEIR Sarah Mallory is on dazzling form with her latest enchanting and enjoyable historical romance, The Duke’s Secret Heir. Poignant, engrossing and a joy from start to finish, The Duke’s Secret Heir is another fabulous read by this multi award-winning storyteller! —Goodreads Review The strength of the story is definitely in the characters and I was really rooting for them to find their happy ever after. Definitely recommended. Fans of historical romance will love it! —Goodreads Review

Author : Emma Thompson
Publisher : Newmarket Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015074053193

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Sense and Sensibility by Emma Thompson Pdf

Originally published: London: Bloomsbury, 1995.

Author : Melissa Nathan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409036401

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Persuading Annie by Melissa Nathan Pdf

It was the perfect opportunity for 'closure'... Meet Annie Markham. Gentle, sweet and kind. Except for her dark side. A dark side called Jake Mead. Seven years ago he'd been her entire world, even though her godmother had tried to persuade her to dump him. But when the going got tough, Annie's 'tough' got going. Jake's hasty departure from her life proved that a) godmothers are cleverer than they look and b) the only thing reliable about men is that they're totally unreliable. Now Jake is back in her life. And he's the one man who may just save her family's ailing company. But what Annie doesn't know is that Jake has an Achilles' heel. An Achilles' heel called Annie Markham. He's never quite got over her treatment of him all those years ago. This is the perfect opportunity for what some may call 'closure'. But what Jake calls, 'revenge'.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2300000058178

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PERSUASION by Jane Austen Pdf

Persuasion is a novel written by a famous British writer Jane Austen. It is a story about the life of Anne Elliot, a middle daughter of baronet Sir Walter, a spender and bluffer. Due to these features of his character, he found himself in a difficult financial position. He has to rent a family estate Kellynch Hall in order to pay his debts. Meanwhile, his most smart and considerate daughter Anne goes to Uppercross to look after a sick sister. In the days of her youth she was mutually in love with Frederick Wentworth, but because of a fear of a poor marriage, “reasons of conscience” and on the insistence of a “family friend” Lady Russel Anne stopped her relationship with him. But now after eight years, some incredible coincidence happens. The family that rents Kellynch Hall is related to Frederick Wentworth. Is the old-time love still alive in the hearts of Anne and Frederick?

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6GWD

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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Pdf

Author : William Baker
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438108490

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Critical Companion to Jane Austen by William Baker Pdf

Jane Austen has been one of the world's most popular writers for 200 years and is best known for her works Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility.