Emma Adapted

Author : Marc Di Paolo
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433100000
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emma Adapted written by Marc Di Paolo and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789774086922
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emma written by Jane Austen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0804172412
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emma: A Modern Retelling written by Alexander McCall Smith and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series deftly escorts Jane Austen’s beloved, meddlesome heroine into the twenty-first century in this delightfully inventive retelling. The summer after university, Emma Woodhouse returns home to live with her widowed father and launch her interior design business. Apart from cultivating grand career plans and managing her father’s hypochondria, Emma busies herself with the two things she does best: matchmaking and offering advice on everything from texting etiquette to first date destinations. Happily, this summer presents abundant opportunities for both, as old and new friends are drawn into the sphere of Emma’s counsel: George Knightley, her principled brother-in-law; Frank Churchill, the attractive stepson of her former governess; Harriet Smith, a naïve but enchanting young teacher’s assistant at the local language school; and the perfect (and perfectly vexing) Jane Fairfax. Carriages have been replaced by Mini Coopers and cups of tea by cappuccinos, but Alexander McCall Smith’s sparkling satire and cozy sensibility are the perfect match for Jane Austen’s beloved tale.

Author : Gina MacDonald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521797283
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Austen on Screen written by Gina MacDonald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores 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. This comprehensive study will be of interest to students and teachers alike.

Author : Linda Troost
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813190068
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Austen in Hollywood written by Linda Troost and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1995 and 1996 six film or television adaptations of Jane Austen's novels were produced -- an unprecedented number. More amazing, all were critical and/or box office successes. What accounts for this explosion of interest? Much of the appeal of these films lies in our nostalgic desire at the end of the millennium for an age of greater politeness and sexual reticence. Austen's ridicule of deceit and pretentiousness also appeals to our fin de siècle sensibilities. The novels were changed, however, to enhance their appeal to a wide popular audience, and the revisions reveal much about our own culture and its values. These recent productions espouse explicitly twentieth-century feminist notions and reshape the Austenian hero to make him conform to modern expectations. Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield present fourteen essays examining the phenomenon of Jane Austen as cultural icon, providing thoughtful and sympathetic insights on the films through a variety of critical approaches. The contributors debate whether these productions enhance or undercut the subtle feminism that Austen promoted in her novels. From Persuasion to Pride and Prejudice, from the three Emmas (including Clueless ) to Sense and Sensibility, these films succeed because they flatter our intelligence and education. And they have as much to tell us about ourselves as they do about the world of Jane Austen. This second edition includes a new chapter on the recent film version of Mansfield Park.

Author : Gregg A. Hecimovich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144113493X
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Austen's Emma written by Gregg A. Hecimovich and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma is one of Jane Austen's most popular novels, in large part due to the impact of Emma Woodhouse, the "handsome, clever and rich" heroine. This lively, informed and insightful guide to Emma explores the style, structure, themes, critical reputation and literary influence of Jane Austen's classic novel and also discusses its film and TV versions. It includes points for discussion, suggestions for further study and an annotated guide to relevant reading. This introduction to the text is the ideal companion to study, offering guidance on the literary and historical context, reading the text, the critical reception and publishing history, adaptation and interpretation and a guide to further reading.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
ISBN 13 : 1435171748
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emma written by Jane Austen and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse delights in interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée, Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected.

Author : Peter Sabor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107082633
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to ‘Emma' written by Peter Sabor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay collection by leading scholars provides a comprehensive guide to Jane Austen's Emma, one of the greatest English novels.

Author : Amy Webb
Publisher : Beaming Books
ISBN 13 : 1506466672
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Awesomely Emma written by Amy Webb and published by Beaming Books. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I love being me, because me is an awesome thing to be! Emma has limb differences, but different isn't bad, sad, or strange. It's just different! But when some accessibility problems get in the way at the local art museum, it ruins the fun of a class trip...and then Emma's friend Charley makes things even worse! In the middle of a really bad day, Emma has to call upon her sense of inner awesome to stand up for herself and teach everyone a lesson about the transformative power of feeling awesome in your own skin. Amy Webb's follow-up to When Charley Met Emma, Awesomely Emma will have all kids cheering as they learn to see the inner awesome in themselves and those around them.

Author : Emma Donoghue
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178682177X
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Room written by Emma Donoghue and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-07 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room.