Adaptation Revisited : Television and the Classic Novel
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
071906046X
ISBN-13
9780719060465
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 29th, 2002
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
322 grams
Dimensions
13.90 x 21.60 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
TelevisionLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersMedia studies
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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.
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.
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