Screening Charles Dickens

Author : William Farina
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476647860
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening Charles Dickens written by William Farina and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-10-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among professional storytellers whose works have been adapted for cinematic dramatization, mid-19th century English novelist Charles Dickens stands in a class of his own. In addition to his most well-known works such as A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist, which are unrivaled for their sheer number of film adaptations, each of Dickens' other major works have been adapted for the screen multiple times, and many remain accessible for viewing on a variety of platforms. This survey highlights the most popular adaptations of each Dickens book, spanning from the films of the silent era through the 21st century. The survey also includes a critical examination that compares the adaptations to the original texts. An analysis outlines the many connections between the fictional narratives and the novelist's own frequently misunderstood biography.

Author : Jon Mee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139788922
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Charles Dickens written by Jon Mee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens became immensely popular early on in his career as a novelist, and his appeal continues to grow with new editions prompted by recent television and film adaptations, as well as large numbers of students studying the Victorian novel. This lively and accessible introduction to Dickens focuses on the extraordinary diversity of his writing. Jon Mee discusses Dickens's novels, journalism and public performances, the historical contexts and his influence on other writers. In the process, five major themes emerge: Dickens the entertainer; Dickens and language; Dickens and London; Dickens, gender, and domesticity; and the question of adaptation, including Dickens's adaptations of his own work. These interrelated concerns allow readers to start making their own new connections between his famous and less widely read works and to appreciate fully the sheer imaginative richness of his writing, which particularly evokes the dizzying expansion of nineteenth-century London.

Author : Mary Hammond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317168259
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Dickens's Great Expectations written by Mary Hammond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Expectations has had a long, active and sometimes surprising life since its first serialized appearance in All the Year Round between 1 December 1860 and 3 August 1861. In this new publishing and reception history, Mary Hammond demonstrates that while Dickens’s thirteenth novel can tell us a great deal about the dynamic mid-Victorian moment into which it was born, its afterlife beyond the nineteenth-century Anglophone world reveals the full extent of its versatility. Re-assessing generations of Dickens scholarship and using newly discovered archival material, Hammond covers the formative history of Great Expectations' early years, analyses the extent and significance of its global reach, and explores the ways in which it has functioned as literature and stage, TV, film and radio drama from its first appearance to the latest film version of 2012. Appendices include contemporary reviews and comprehensive bibliographies of adaptations and translations. The book is a rich resource for scholars and students of Dickens; of comparative literature; and of publishing, readership, and media history.

Author : Michael Pointer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Dickens on the Screen written by Michael Pointer and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey of the screen adaptations of the works of Charles Dickens covers the worldwide film, television and video dramatizations from 1897-1993. It contains a catalog of more than 350 TV productions with cast lists and credits.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Educational Screen written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Keith Selby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349102830
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Study a Charles Dickens Novel written by Keith Selby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1989-11-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a clear method of study which encourages students to construct their own interpretation of any of Dicken's novels. It helps students to identify a novel's major thematic concerns and interests and to argue a case purely from the evidence of the text. But it also moves beyond a straighforwardly thematic analysis to consider how a novel is put together and how it works. This in turn provides students with a way of identifying the distinctiveness of Dickens's fiction and with a way of structuring an intelligent critical response to any of his novels.

Author : Simon Brown
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 147731492X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening Stephen King written by Simon Brown and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s, the name Stephen King has been synonymous with horror. His vast number of books has spawned a similar number of feature films and TV shows, and together they offer a rich opportunity to consider how one writer’s work has been adapted over a long period within a single genre and across a variety of media—and what that can tell us about King, about adaptation, and about film and TV horror. Starting from the premise that King has transcended ideas of authorship to become his own literary, cinematic, and televisual brand, Screening Stephen King explores the impact and legacy of over forty years of King film and television adaptations. Simon Brown first examines the reasons for King’s literary success and then, starting with Brian De Palma’s Carrie, explores how King’s themes and style have been adapted for the big and small screens. He looks at mainstream multiplex horror adaptations from Cujo to Cell, low-budget DVD horror films such as The Mangler and Children of the Corn franchises, non-horror films, including Stand by Me and The Shawshank Redemption, and TV works from Salem’s Lot to Under the Dome. Through this discussion, Brown identifies what a Stephen King film or series is or has been, how these works have influenced film and TV horror, and what these influences reveal about the shifting preoccupations and industrial contexts of the post-1960s horror genre in film and TV.

Author : Keith Selby
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349205168
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening The Novel written by Keith Selby and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book takes as its theme the relationship between literature and the contemporary means of production and distribution collectively termed 'the media' - in particular, film and television. The intention of the book is to explore and evaluate the mutual opportunities and restrictions in this relationship. In the grammar of our culture there seems to be an accepted opinion that print is superior in terms of cultural production to film, radio or television, that to read a book is somehow a 'higher' cultural activity than seeing a play on television or seeing a film. By the same token, a novel is a 'superior' work of art to film or television. The longer perspective reveals that traditionally there always is a greater respect paid to the previous mode of literary production - poetry was superior to drama, poetic drama was superior to the novel, and film attained cult and classic status initially over television.

Author : A. L. Zambrano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780879684563
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dickens and Film written by A. L. Zambrano and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: