Dickens on screen / edited by John Glavin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glavin, John, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Dickens, Charles.

English fiction--Film adaptations.

English fiction.

Film adaptations--History and criticism.

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : 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:

Dickens, psychoanalysis and film: a roundtable / Gerhard Joseph

David Copperfield's home movies / John Bowen

David Lean's Great Expectations / Regina Barreca

Great Expectations on Australian television / John O. Jordan

Dickens 'The Signalman' and Rubini's La Stazione / Alessandro Vescovi

Bill Murray's Christmas Carols / Murray Baumgarten

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

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

Directing Dickens: Alfonso Cuaron's 1998 / Pam Katz

Playing Dickens: an interview with Miriam Margolyes

Cinematic Dickens and uncinematic words / Kamilla Elliott

Dickens, Eisenstein, film / Garrett Stewart

Orson Welles and Charles Dickens 1938-1941 / Marguerite Rippy

David Copperfield (1935) and the US curriculum / Steve J. Wurzler

Dickens, Selznick, and Southpark / Jeffrey Sconce

Tiny Tim on screen: a disabilities perspective / Martin F. Norden

Dickens composed: film and television adaptation 1897-2001 / Kate Charnell Watt and Kate Lonsdale.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780511484827 (electronic book)

1-107-13127-8

1-280-16333-X

0-511-11975-5

0-511-07797-1

0-511-20465-5

0-511-30751-9

0-511-48482-8

0-511-07640-1

OCLC:

57509538