Jane Austen on Screen

by Edited by Gina MacDonald , Andrew MacDonald

• ISBN13: 9780521793254
• ISBN10: 0521793254
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 filmic renderings of Austen to film-makers 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 comprehensive study, including an exhaustive Austen bibliography and filmography, will be of interest to students and teachers alike.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
List of contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xii
Introduction	1	(8)
Gina Macdonald
Andrew Macdonald
Short ``Takes'' on Austen: summarizing the controversy between literary purists and film enthusiasts	9	(13)
A few skeptical thought on Jane Austen and film	10	(2)
Roger Gard
Sense and Sensibility: Ang Lee's sensitive screen interpretation of Jane Austen	12	(3)
Gaylene Preston
Commodifying Austen: the Janeite culture of the Internet and commercialization through product and television series spinoffs	15	(7)
Kate Bowles
Janeite culture: what does the name ``Jane Austen'' authorize?	22	(22)
Harriet Margolis
``Such a transformation!'': translation, imitation, and intertextuality in Jane Austen on screen	44	(25)
Jocelyn Harris
Two Mansfield Parks: purist and postmodern	69	(21)
Jan Fergus
Sense and Sensibility in a postfeminist world: sisterhood is still powerful	90	(21)
Penny Gay
Regency romance shadowing in the visual motifs of Roger Michell's Persuasion	111	(16)
Paulette Richards
Filming romance: Persuasion	127	(17)
Tara Ghoshal Wallace
Emma, interrupted: speaking Jane Austen in fiction and film	144	(31)
Hilary Schor
Reimagining Jane Austen: the 1940 and 1995 film versions of Pride and Prejudice	175	(22)
Ellen Belton
Emma and the art of adaptation	197	(31)
David Monaghan
Clues for the clueless	228	(26)
John Mosier
Questions for discussion	254	(6)
Filmography	260	(6)
Bibliography	266	(15)
Index	281