The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen

Deborah Cartmell editor Imelda Whelehan editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:10th May '07

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A collection of essays covering many different aspects of literature on screen.

This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, genre and adaptations for children.This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, genre and adaptations for children. There are also case studies, such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the nineteenth-century novel and modernism, which allow the reader to place adaptations of the work of writers within a wider context. An interview with Andrew Davies, whose work includes Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Bleak House (2005), reveals the practical choices and challenges that face the professional writer and adaptor. The Companion as a whole provides an extensive survey of an increasingly popular field of study.

"endeavors to change readers' notions of film adapatations as inferior to their literary counterparts...Summing up: Recommended." -J.C. Tibbetts, University of Kansas, Choice

ISBN: 9780521614863

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm

Weight: 430g

290 pages