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Informationen zum Autor Christine Geraghty is Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Glasgow and Honorary Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She is the author of Now a Major Motion Picture (2008), My Beautiful Laundrette (2004) and British Cinema in the Fifties (2000). Klappentext A new edition to our BFI TV Classics series, this analysis of BBC's Bleak House aims to analyze this critically acclaimed production in terms of its adaptation status, narrative organization, acting, setting and mise-en-scene, while also using it to comment on more general issues in television studies. Zusammenfassung A new edition to our BFI TV Classics series! this analysis of BBC's Bleak House aims to analyze this critically acclaimed production in terms of its adaptation status! narrative organization! acting! setting and mise-en-scene! while also using it to comment on more general issues in television studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments.- Introduction: Dickens and Television.- The Classic Serial.- Serialisation and Soaps.- The Problem with Esther.- Narrative Organisation and the Double Story.- Characterisation and Performance.- Settings.- 'Illustrating' Bleak House.- Conclusion: Classic Television.- Notes.- Appendix: The Beginning and Ending of Each Episode.- Bibliography.- Credits.- Index.
