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Informationen zum Autor John Glavin is Professor of English, and Director of the John Carroll Scholars Program Georgetown University, Washington DC. He is the author of After Dickens: Reading, Adaptation and Performance (Cambridge, 1999). Klappentext Dickens on Screen is a broad ranging investigation of over a century of film adaptations of Dickens's works. Zusammenfassung Dickens on Screen is a broad ranging investigation of over a century of film adaptations of Dickens's works. It is an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike. It provides an exhaustive filmography and is well illustrated. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Notes on the contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction John Glavin; Part I: 1. Dickens, psychoanalysis and film: a roundtable Gerhard Joseph; Part II: 2. David Copperfield's home movies John Bowen; 3. David Lean's Great Expectations Regina Barreca; 4. Great Expectations on Australian television John O. Jordan; 5. Dickens 'The Signalman' and Rubini's La Stazione Alessandro Vescovi; 6. Bill Murray's Christmas Carols Murray Baumgarten; 7. Screen memories in Dickens and Woody Allen Robert M. Polhemus; Part III: 8. Writing after Dickens: the television writer's art John Romano; 9. Directing Dickens: Alfonso Cuaron's 1998 Pam Katz; 10. Playing Dickens: an interview with Miriam Margolyes; Part IV: 11. Cinematic Dickens and uncinematic words Kamilla Elliott; 12. Dickens, Eisenstein, film Garrett Stewart; 13. Orson Welles and Charles Dickens 1938-41 Marguerite Rippy; 14. David Copperfield (1935) and the US curriculum Steve J. Wurzler; 15. Dickens, Selznick, and Southpark Jeffrey Sconce; 16. Tiny Tim on screen: a disabilities perspective Martin F. Norden; Part V: Dickens composed: film and television adaptation 1897-2001 Kate Charnell Watt and Kate Lonsdale; Index.
