Dickens and the dream of cinema
By: Grahame Smith.
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Knowledge -- Performing arts.; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Film and video adaptations.; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Technique.; Literature and technology -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Film adaptations -- History and criticism.; Motion pictures and literature.; Performing arts in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-202) and index.
Table of contents: title: Exploratory; title: Machines and things: seeing and being seen; title: Explanations; title: London as labyrinth - Paris as panorama; title: The magic carpet of technology; title: Dickens, theatre and spectacle; title: The impurity of art; title: Novel into film: the case of Little Dorrit; title: Language and form.