Cultural afterlives and screen adaptations of classic literature
Subtitle: Wuthering Heights and company
By: Hila Shachar
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780230294042
Subjects: Film adaptations; History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Film and video adaptations; Motion pictures and literature
Description: "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"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of figures; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction: the screen afterlife of Wuthering Heights; title: Before the afterlife: analysing Wuthering Heights; title: The Cinema of spectacle: establishing the Wuthering Heights tradition on the eve of Hollywood's golden era; title: Moving backward, looking forward: Jacques Rivette's Hurlevent; title: Wuthering Heights in the 1990s: Peter Kosminsky's ambitious narrative; title: Catherine and Heathcliff for the Y Generation: MTV's modernisation of Wuthering Heights; title: Critical legacies and contemporary audiences: The politics of Neo-Victorianism in ITV's 2009 adaptation of Wuthering Heights; title: Afterword: myths and demystification.