Adaptations: From Text to Screen, Screen to Text

Book Overview

Adaptations considers the theoretical and practical difficulties surrounding the translation of a text into film, and the reverse process; the novelisation of films. Through three sets of case studies, the contributors examine the key debates surrounding adaptations: whether screen versions of literary classics can be faithful to the text; if something as capsulated as Jane Austens irony can even be captured on film; whether costume dramas always...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415167388
• ISBN13: 9780415167383
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"