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An original blending of literary and film studies which seeks to dissolve barriers between the two disciplines. Offers a new reading of Dickens from the perspective of film, technology and visuality. Proposes a new reading of the emergence of film in the light of social and industrial transformations.

Table of Contents

1. Exploratory
2. Machines and things: seeing and being seen
3. Explanation
4. A tale of two cities: Paris as panorama/ London as labyrinth
5. The magic carpet of technology
6. Dickens, theatre and spectacle
7. Adaptation
8. Novel into film: the case of 'Little Dorrit'
9. Language and form
A Dream Epilogue Charles Dickens and Orson Welles
Select bibliography
Index

Dickens and the Dream of Cinema

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 9/30/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780719055638
      978-0719055638
      ISBN-10 0719055636

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An original blending of literary and film studies which seeks to dissolve barriers between the two disciplines. Offers a new reading of Dickens from the perspective of film, technology and visuality. Proposes a new reading of the emergence of film in the light of social and industrial transformations.

      Table of Contents

      1. Exploratory
      2. Machines and things: seeing and being seen
      3. Explanation
      4. A tale of two cities: Paris as panorama/ London as labyrinth
      5. The magic carpet of technology
      6. Dickens, theatre and spectacle
      7. Adaptation
      8. Novel into film: the case of 'Little Dorrit'
      9. Language and form
      A Dream Epilogue Charles Dickens and Orson Welles
      Select bibliography
      Index

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