Charles Dickens' Great expectations : the relationship between text and film / Brian McFarlanem ; edited by Imelda Whelehan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McFarlane, Brian, 1934-

Series:

Screen adaptations.

Screen adaptations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Great expectations.

Dickens, Charles.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Other Title:

Screen adaptations: Charles Dickens' Great expectations

Place of Publication:

London, England : Methuen Drama, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Dickens has been immensely popular with filmmakers and Great Expectations has an unusual hold on the papular imagination. This book addresses in detail numerous adaptations with particular emphasis on the two television serials and four film versions including David Lean's celebrated 1946 classic and a modern re-working starring Gwyneth Paltrow."--Jacket.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction and acknowledgments; Filmography and credits for key films; Part One: Literary contexts; An enduringly popular novel; Part Two: From text to screen; Adaptations and extrapolations across the media; Great Expectationson television; Great Expectations(1934): a Hollywood studio romance; Great Expectations(1975): a musical sans songs; Great Expectations(1998): from estuary to gulf, to Manhattan and back; Great Expectations(1946): something like a classic; Part Three: The afterlife of Lean's film; A film of its time

and for other times; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C.

De; f; g; h; i; j; k; l; m; n; o; p; r; s; t; u; v; w; y.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-179) and index.

Includes filmography: pages xi-xx.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-4081-4901-X

1-4081-4902-8

OCLC:

890314545