Deborah Cartmell: 3 books
Screen Adaptation
Impure Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Adaptation studies has historically been neglected in both the English and Film Studies curricula. Reflecting on this, Screen Adaptation celebrates its emergence in the late 20th and 21st centuries and explores the varieties of methodologies and debates within the field. Drawing on approaches from genre...
Screen Adaptations: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
A close study of the relationship between text and film
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
The study of literature on screen is a growing area of study in schools and universities. Many students have to produce critical essays comparing the novel and film versions of a particular text. The Screen Adaptations series offers a wealth of study material: from the literary context of the original...
Adaptations in the Sound Era
1927-37
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
There is no disputing that the coming of sound heralded a new era for adaptations. We take it for granted today that a film is enhanced by sound but it was not a view unanimously held in the early period of sound cinema. While there was a substantial degree of skepticism in the late 1920s and early...