Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature [electronic resource] : Wuthering Heights and Company /
Shachar, H.author.
Film and television adaptations of classic literature have held a longstanding appeal for audiences, an appeal that this book sets out to examine. With a particular focus on Wuthering Heights , the book examines adaptations made from the 1930s to the twenty-first century, providing an understanding of how they help shape our cultural landscape.
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Machine generated contents note: -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the screen afterlife of Wuthering Heights -- Before the afterlife: analysing Wuthering Heights -- The Cinema of spectacle: establishing the Wuthering Heights tradition on the eve of Hollywood's golden era -- Moving backward, looking forward: Jacques Rivette's Hurlevent -- Wuthering Heights in the 1990s: Peter Kosminsky's ambitious narrative -- Catherine and Heathcliff for the Y Generation: MTV's modernisation of Wuthering Heights -- Critical legacies and contemporary audiences: The politics of Neo-Victorianism in ITV's 2009 adaptation of Wuthering Heights -- Afterword: myths and demystification.
Film and television adaptations of classic literature have held a longstanding appeal for audiences, an appeal that this book sets out to examine. With a particular focus on Wuthering Heights , the book examines adaptations made from the 1930s to the twenty-first century, providing an understanding of how they help shape our cultural landscape.
Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848.
Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848
Motion pictures—History.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Film History.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Literature, general.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.