Emma Adapted: Jane Austen's Heroine from Book to Film

ISBN-13: 9781433100000 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 190 str.

Dipaolo, Marc

Opis

This work of literary and film criticism examines all eight filmed adaptations of Jane Austen s Emma produced between 1948 and 1996 as vastly different interpretations of the source novel. Instead of condemning the movies and television specials as being -not as good as the book, - Marc DiPaolo considers how each adaptation might be understood as a valid -reading- of Austen s text. For example, he demonstrates how the Gwyneth Paltrow film Emma is both a romance and a female coming-of-age story, the 1972 BBC miniseries dramatizes Emma s world as claustrophobic and Emma herself as suffering from depression, and the modern-day teen comedy Clueless comes closest of all to bringing a feminist reading of the novel to the screen. Each version illuminates a different, legitimate way of reading the novel that is rewarding for Austen fans, scholars, and students alike."

O autorze

The Author: Marc DiPaolo, Assistant Professor of Communications and English at Alvernia College, is a narratologist and specialist in British and American Romanticism. He is an editor of the literature anthology The Conscious Reader, and has contributed chapters to the forthcoming books A Century of the Marx Brothers and The Amazing Transforming Superhero. He earned his doctorate in English from Drew University.