Description
Book SynopsisA 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.
Table of Contents1. Introduction
2. Pickwick Papers: beyond that place and time (Robert Giddings)
3. Where the garment gapes: Faithfulness and promiscuity in the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice (Erica Sheen)
4. Sentimentality, sex and sadism: the 1935 version of Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop (Jenny Dennett)
5. Beholding a magic panorama: television and the illustration of Middlemarch (Ian Mackillop & Alison Platt)
6. Hardy, history and hokum (Keith Selby)
7. A taste of the gothic: Film and television versions of Dracula (Jonathon Bignell)
8. Times of death in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent and Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage (Suzanne Spiedel)
9. Lids tend to come off: David Lean's film of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India (Neil Sinyard)
10. Brideshead Revisited revisited (Fred Inglis)
11. Piecing together a mirage: Adapting the English Patient for the screen (Bronwen Thomas)
