Screening Novel Women - From British Domestic Fiction to Film

Informationen zum Autor LIORA BROSH is Lecturer in Literature and Film at Monmouth University, USA. Klappentext From Hollywood classics like Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights to the 1990s wave of Jane Austen films, adaptations of the British Nineteenth-century novel have been sensationally popular. This book examines how British and American filmmakers used the domestic novels of the past to construct stable gender ideals for the present. Zusammenfassung From Hollywood classics like Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights to the 1990s wave of Jane Austen films! adaptations of the British Nineteenth-century novel have been sensationally popular. This book examines how British and American filmmakers used the domestic novels of the past to construct stable gender ideals for the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE: THE 1930s AND 1940s: HOLLYWOOD AND BRITAIN Consuming Women: Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights Maternal Desire: Jane Eyre Recovering Victorian Ideals: The Mill on the Floss Twisted Femininities: Great Expectations and Oliver Twist PART TWO: THE 1990s: CONVERGENCES Violence, Liberation, and Desire Re-creating the Classics: The Piano Notes Bibliography Index

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Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE: THE 1930s AND 1940s: HOLLYWOOD AND BRITAIN Consuming Women: Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights Maternal Desire: Jane Eyre Recovering Victorian Ideals: The Mill on the Floss Twisted Femininities: Great Expectations and Oliver Twist PART TWO: THE 1990s: CONVERGENCES Violence, Liberation, and Desire Re-creating the Classics: The Piano Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: L. Brosh, Liora Brosh
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.02.2008
• EAN: 9780230008465
• ISBN: 978-0-230-00846-5
• No. of pages: 179
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Film History, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Literature—Philosophy, Film and TV History, Motion pictures—History, Film history, theory & criticism, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection