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From Page to Screen: Adaptations of the Classic Novel
From Page to Screen: Adaptations of the Classic Novel
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Edited by: Robert Giddings & Erica Sheen Publisher: Manchester University Press Format: Softcover # of Pages: 244 Pub. Date: 2000 ISBN-10: 0719052319 ISBN-13: 9780719052316
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About
the Book:
The Classic Novel: From Page to Screen
critically examines the long established tradition of adapting
classic novels to film or TV screen.
Editors Robert Giddings and Erica Sheen present a
wide-ranging but focused collection of essays on cinema and
television adaptations that is free of media jargon and 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. The early cinema ransacked
literature for stories suitable for retelling in moving pictures, and
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 versions of respected novels. The authors in The Classic Novel: From Page to Screen
analyze a wide variety of literary dramatizations.
About the Authors:
Robert Giddings (1935-2012) was Professor Emeritus in
Communication and Culture at the School of Media Arts and
Communication, Bournemouth University. He lived, taught, wrote and
argued from a wheelchair, having been disabled by polio as a child.
He produced 20 books, alone or in collaboration, and wrote
extensively about film and TV adaptations and applauded whatever
conveyed literature to the general public.
Erica Sheen is Lecturer in English Literature, Film and
Literary Theory at the University of Sheffield. She teaches and
researches in the Renaissance and in cinema, especially American and
European cinemas in the Cold War. |
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