Offers a critical reappraisal of a prolific and popular genre, as well as bringing new material into the broader field of Television Studies. Surveys the traditional discourses about adaptation, unearthing the unspoken assumptions and common misconceptions that underlie them and explores the problems inherent in previous approaches, developing an original perspective that considers the particularly televisual nature of this genre. Examines four major British serials: 'Brideshead Revisited', 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Moll Flanders', and 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' revealing the genre's importance in constituting and moderating our understanding of the past and of television itself. The first sustained and coherent book on the subject in almost a decade.
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Offering a critical reappraisal of a prolific and popular genre, this text also brings new material into the broader field of television studies. It surveys the traditional discourses about adaptation, unearthing assumptions and misconceptions, and explores the problems of previous approaches.
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List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Re:writing adaptations
1. What is (an) adaptation?
2. Criticism revealed
3. Theory revisited
4. Television adaptations in the televisual context
Part II: The adaptations
Introduction to Part II
5. Brideshead Revisited (1981)
6. Pride and Prejudice (1995)
7. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996)
8. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996)
9. Reconfiguring the genre
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
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Offers a critical reappraisal of a prolific and popular genre, as well as bringing new material into the broader field of Television Studies. Surveys the traditional discourses about adaptation, unearthing the unspoken assumptions and common misconceptions that underlie them and explores the problems inherent in previous approaches, developing an original perspective that considers the particularly televisual nature of this genre. Examines four major British serials: 'Brideshead Revisited', 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Moll Flanders', and 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' revealing the genre's importance in constituting and moderating our understanding of the past and of television itself. The first sustained and coherent book on the subject in almost a decade.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780719060465
Publisert
2002-08-29
Utgiver
Vendor
Manchester University Press
Vekt
295 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
G, UU, 01, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240
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