Bleak House
Published on 19. September 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
152 pages
978-1-84457-417-9 (ISBN)
Description
A new edition to our BFI TV Classics series, this analysis of BBC's Bleak House aims to analyze this critically acclaimed production in terms of its adaptation status, narrative organization, acting, setting and mise-en-scene, while also using it to comment on more general issues in television studies.
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Series
Edition
2012
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
53 colour photos
Dimensions
Height: 190 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84457-417-9 (9781844574179)
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CHRISTINE GERAGHTY is Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Glasgow and Honorary Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Now a Major Motion Picture: Film Adaptations from Literature and Drama (2008); My Beautiful Laundrette (2004); British Cinema in the Fifties: Gender, Genre and the 'New Look' (2000); and Women and Soap Opera (1990), and editor, with David Lusted, of The Television Studies Book (1998
Content
Acknowledgments.- Introduction: Dickens and Television.- The Classic Serial.- Serialisation and Soaps.-
The Problem with Esther.- Narrative Organisation and the Double Story.- Characterisation and Performance.- Settings.- 'Illustrating' Bleak House.- Conclusion: Classic Television.- Notes.- Appendix: The Beginning and Ending of Each Episode.- Bibliography.- Credits.- Index.
The Problem with Esther.- Narrative Organisation and the Double Story.- Characterisation and Performance.- Settings.- 'Illustrating' Bleak House.- Conclusion: Classic Television.- Notes.- Appendix: The Beginning and Ending of Each Episode.- Bibliography.- Credits.- Index.