The Classic Novel

From page to screen

Edited by Erica Sheen, Robert Giddings

Publication date:

02 March 2000

Length of book:

256 pages

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Dimensions:

216x138mm

ISBN-13: 9780719052316

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

This book critically examines the long established tradition of adapting classic novels to film or TV screen. An emerging area of interest - the relationship between film and literature and the way cinema and television have translated classic novels into moving pictures from the 30s to the 90s.. A wide-ranging but focused collection that is bang up to date and free of media jargon that looks at both the film and the book.. Includes discussion of: The English Patient, Pride and Prejudice and Middlemarch, Pickwick Papers, Dracula, Dickens, Conrad, Hardy and Waugh.

1. 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)