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Informationen zum Autor Jefferson Hunter Klappentext Screen adaptation is broached in analyses of the 1985 BBC version of Dickens's Bleak House and Merchant-Ivory's The Remains of the Day. Zusammenfassung Examines English films and television dramas as they relate to English culture in the 20th century. This book traces themes such as the influence of US crime drama on English film, and film adaptations of literary works as they appear in screen work from the 1930s. It also analyzes the documentary "Listen to Britain". Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Preface Introduction: By Way of Hanif Kureishi and Stephen Frears 1. Wartime Pageantry The Archers on Pilgrimage Screen Processions and Village Pageants The Documentary Pageant: Jennings's Listen to Britain 2. American Gangsters, English Crime Films, and Dennis Potter George Orwell versus James Hadley Chase Contending with America In Search of an English Crime Film The Singing Detective as Summa Criminologica 3. Two Texts to Screen How to Adapt Dickens, and How Not to Do It Ishiguro and Merchant-Ivory, Upstairs and Downstairs 4. The Strange Potencies of Music Rawsthorne and Rachmaninoff Rolling Out the Barrel, Looking Up and Laughing Distant Voices and Lip-Synched Lives Conclusion: By Way of Tony Harrison and Alan Bennett Notes Index
