Dickens on screen / edited by John Glavin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glavin, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Film adaptations.

Dickens, Charles.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

English fiction--Film adaptations.

English fiction.

Film adaptations.

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

xii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Television and film, not libraries or scholarship, have made Charles Dickens the most important unread novelist in English. It is not merely that millions of people feel comfortable deploying the word "Dickensian" to describe their own and others' lives, but that many more people who have never read Dickens know what "Dickensian" means. They know about Dickens because they have access to over a century of adaptations for the big and small screen. Because Dickens has proven to be the most easily adapted of major novelists, he has become, somewhat ironically, one of the foremost novelists in the English canon. This is ironic because it was just this capacity to entertain that once confined him to the margins of the "great tradition" in fiction. Dickens on Screen is an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike. It provides an exhaustive filmography and is well illustrated.

Contents:

1 Dickens, psychoanalysis, and film: a roundtable / Gerhard Joseph 11

2 David Copperfield's home movies / John Bowen 29

3 David Lean's Great Expectations / Regina Barreca 39

4 Great Expectations on Australian television / John O. Jordan 45

5 Dickens's "The Signalman" and Rubini's La stazione / Alessandro Vescovi 53

6 Bill Murray's Christmas Carols / Murray Baumgarten 61

7 Screen memories in Dickens and Woody Allen / Robert M. Polhemus 72

8 Writing after Dickens: the television writer's art / John Romano 89

9 Directing Dickens: Alfonso Cuaron's 1998 Great Expectations / Pamela Katz 95

10 Playing Dickens: Miriam Margolyes 104

11 Cinematic Dickens and uncinematic words / Kamilla Elliott 113

12 Dickens, Eisenstein, film / Garrett Stewart 122

13 Orson Welles and Charles Dickens 1938-1941 / Marguerite Rippy 145

14 David Copperfield (1935) and the US curriculum / Steve J. Wurtzler 155

15 Dickens, Selznick, and Southpark / Jeffrey Sconce 171

16 Tiny Tim on screen: a disability studies perspective / Martin F. Norden 188

17 Dickens composed: film and television adaptations 1897-2001 / Kate Carnell Watt, Kathleen C. Lonsdale 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography (pages 201-216), and index.

ISBN:

0521806526

0521001242

OCLC:

51336560

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