Screen Adaptations: Great Expectations
A Close Study of the Relationship Between Text and Film
1st Edition
Published on 26. September 2014
208 pages
978-1-4081-4902-7 (ISBN)
Description
A close study of the relationship between text and film versions of Great Expectations.
Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material to
support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions
provide different readings of the original text.
Focussing on David Lean's film of Great Expectations, the
book discusses: the literary text in its historical context, key themes
and dominant readings of the text, how the text is adapted for screen
and how adaptations have changed our reading of the original text.
There are numerous excerpts from the literary text, screenplays and
shooting scripts, with suggestions for comparison. The book also
features quotations from authors, screenwriters, directors, critics and
others linked with the chosen film and text.
Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material to
support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions
provide different readings of the original text.
Focussing on David Lean's film of Great Expectations, the
book discusses: the literary text in its historical context, key themes
and dominant readings of the text, how the text is adapted for screen
and how adaptations have changed our reading of the original text.
There are numerous excerpts from the literary text, screenplays and
shooting scripts, with suggestions for comparison. The book also
features quotations from authors, screenwriters, directors, critics and
others linked with the chosen film and text.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4081-4902-7 (9781408149027)
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Brian Mcfarlane
Screen Adaptations: Great Expectations
A close study of the relationship between text and film
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04/2008
Methuen Drama
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Brian McFarlane is Honorary Associate Professor at Monash University,
Australia. He is a distinguished figure in literature and film whose
books include The Encyclopedia of British Film and An Autobiography of British Cinema, The Cinema of Britain and Ireland, and Novel to Film.
Australia. He is a distinguished figure in literature and film whose
books include The Encyclopedia of British Film and An Autobiography of British Cinema, The Cinema of Britain and Ireland, and Novel to Film.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction and acknowledgments
- Filmography and credits for key films
- Part One: Literary contexts
- An enduringly popular novel
- Part Two: From text to screen
- Adaptations and extrapolations across the media
- Great Expectationson television
- Great Expectations(1934): a Hollywood studio romance
- Great Expectations(1975): a musical sans songs
- Great Expectations(1998): from estuary to gulf, to Manhattan and back
- Great Expectations(1946): something like a classic
- Part Three: The afterlife of Lean's film
- A film of its time - and for other times
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
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