Jane Austen on Screen

by Edited by Gina MacDonald , Andrew MacDonald

• ISBN13: 9780521797283
• ISBN10: 0521797284
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This collection of essays explores the literary and cinematic implications of translating Austen's prose into film. It considers how prose fiction and cinema differ; how mass commercial audiences require changes to script and character; and 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 film-makers who see the text as a stimulus for producing exceptional cinema. The comprehensive study will be of interest to students as well as teachers.

Table of Contents

Jane Austen on screen: a filmography

1. Short 'takes' on Austen: Summarizing the controversy between literary pursuits and film enthusiasts: Sense and Sensibility: Ang Lee's sensitive screen interpretation of Jane Austen Gaylene Preston

A few sceptical thoughts on Jane Austen and film Roger Gard

Commodifying Austen: the Janeite culture of the internet and commercialization through product and television spinoffs Kate Bowles

2. Janeite culture: what does the name 'Jane Austen' authorize? Harriet Margolis

3. 'Such a transformation!': translation, imitation, and intertextuality in Jane Austen on screen Jocelyn Harris

4. Two Mansfield Parks purist and postmodern Jan Fergus

5. Sense and Sensibility in a post-feminist world: sisterhood is still powerful Penny Gay

6. Regency romance shadowing in the visual motifs of Roger Mitchell's Persuasion Paulette Richards

7. Filming romance: Persuasion Tara G. Wallace

8. Emma, interrupted: speaking Jane Austen in fiction and film Hilary Schor

9. Reimagining Jane Austen: the 1940 and 1995 versions of Pride and Prejudice Ellen Belton

10. Emma and the art of adaptation David Monaghan

11. Clues for the clueless John Mosier

Questions for discussion

Bibliography.