From Page To Screen

From Page To Screen PDF Author: Erica Sheen
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719052316
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Book Description
This book critically examines the long established tradition of adapting classic novels to film or TV screen, encompassing novelists from Jane Austen to Michael Ondaatje. The early cinema ransacked literature for stories suitable for retelling in moving pictures, and as the art of the cinema matured, and cinematography, music, special effects and sound were improved, the art of dramatization began to produce high quality versions of respected novels. The authors in this book analyze a wide variety of literary dramatizations.