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Informationen zum Autor Sarah Cardwell is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figuresAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Re:writing adaptations1. What is (an) adaptation?2. Criticism revealed3. Theory revisited4. Television adaptations in the televisual contextPart II: The adaptationsIntroduction to Part II5. 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 genreBibliographyFilmographyIndex
