Jane Austen on screen
By: edited by Gina Macdonald and Andrew Macdonald.
Contributors: Macdonald, Gina.; Macdonald, Andrew, 1942-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Film and video adaptations; English fiction -- Film and video adaptations; Film adaptations -- History and criticism
Description: Jane Austen on Screen is a collection of essays exploring the literary and cinematic implications of translating Austen's prose into film. Contributors raise questions of how prose fiction and cinema differ, of how mass commercial audiences require changes to script and character, and of how continually remade films evoke memories of earlier productions. The essays represent widely divergent perspectives, from literary "purists" suspicious of film renderings of Austen to filmmakers who see the text as a stimulus for producing exceptional cinema. Theoretical issues are explored in balance with the practical concerns of literature-to-film conversions: casting choices, authenticity of settings, script "amputations" of the original prose, anachronisms, relevance for modern mass audiences, and the intertextuality informing the production of much-remade works. This study, including an exhaustive Austen bibliography and filmography, will be of interest to students and teachers alike.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-280) and index.
Filmography: p. 260-265.
Table of contents: title: Short "takes" on Austen : summarizing the controversy between literary purists and film enthusiasts. A few skeptical thoughts on Jane Austen and film / Roger Gard ; Sense and sensibility : Ang Lee's sensitive screen interpretation of Jane Austen / Gaylene Preston ; Commodifying Austen : the Janeite culture of the Internet and commercialization through product and television series spinoffs / Kate Bowles; title: Janeite culture : what does the name "Jane Austen" authorize? / Harriet Margolis; title: "Such a transformation!" : translation, imitation, and intertexuality in Jane Austen on screen / Jocelyn Harris; title: Two Mansfield Parks : purist and postmodern / Jan Fergus; title: Sense and sensibility in a postfeminist world : sisterhood is still powerful / Penny Gay; title: Regency reomance shadowing in the visual motifs of Roger Michell's Persuasion / Paulette Richards; title: Filming romance : Persuasion / Tara Ghoshal Wallace; title: Emma, interrupted : speaking Jane Austen in fiction and film / Hilary Schor; title: Reimagining Jane Austen : the 1940 and 1995 film version of Pride and prejudice / Ellen Belton; title: Emma and the art of adaptation / David Monaghan; title: Clues for the clueless / John Moisier.