Nineteenth-Century Women at the Movies: Adapting Classic Women's Fiction to Film - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087972806X ISBN 13: 9780879728069

Publisher: Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, 1999

Synopsis

Even in Hollywood's world of blockbusters and special effects, there continues to be an interest in adaptations based on the works of writers of other eras, especially the classic novels of nineteenth-century women. Those novels, as accessible, as relevant, and as endearing to modern film audiences as they have been to generations of readers, emphasize strong female protagonists, fine language, and sensitivity to social nuances. And the important issues explored in much of that classic fiction--inequities of patriarchal structures and ambivalence over male domination (Jane Eyre), fear of science and technology gone awry (Frankenstein), unconventional notions of gender and sexuality (Under Two Flags), evils of slavery (Uncle Tom's Cabin)--speak as strongly to contemporary women as to women of Shelley's or Brontė's age.

Nineteenth-Century Women at the Movies analyzes in detail the adaptations of novels by eight popular writers--Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontė, Emily Brontė, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Ouida, and George Eliot--and examines the ways in which those writers' themes are reinterpreted, updated, and often misconstrued by the filmmakers who bring them to the screen. The volume's twelve essays, whose authors include some of the foremost scholars of contemporary literature and film, offer critical insights not only into the visions of the novelist and the filmmaker but also into contemporary cultural concerns.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Tepa Lupack has written extensively about American literature, film, and culture. Her most recent books include King Arthur in America and Arthurian Literature by Women (both with Alan Lupack); Critical Essays on Jerzy Kosinski; Vision/Re-Vision: Adapting Contemporary American Fiction by Women to Film; Take Two: Adapting the Contemporary American Novel to Film; and Insanity as Redemption in Contemporary American Fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Popular Pr of Bowling Green State
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 087972806X
• ISBN 13: 9780879728069
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 321
• Editor: Lupack Barbara Tepa