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Screening The Novel

The Theory And Practice Of Literary Dramatization

Palgrave Macmillan

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  1. Robert Giddings
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  2. Keith Selby
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  3. Chris Wensley
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. The Literature/Screen Debate: an Overview

    • Robert Giddings, Keith Selby, Chris Wensley
    Pages 1-27

  3. The Re-creation of the Past

    • Robert Giddings, Keith Selby, Chris Wensley
    Pages 28-42

  4. The Classic Serial Tradition

    • Robert Giddings, Keith Selby, Chris Wensley
    Pages 43-53

  5. The Classic Novel: Great Expectations

    • Robert Giddings, Keith Selby, Chris Wensley
    Pages 54-78

  6. The Screening of Great Expectations

    • Robert Giddings, Keith Selby, Chris Wensley
    Pages 79-93

  7. Case Study: The Dramatization of Vanity Fair

    • Robert Giddings, Keith Selby, Chris Wensley
    Pages 94-121

  8. Case Study: The Production of Vanity Fair

    • Robert Giddings, Keith Selby, Chris Wensley
    Pages 122-161

  9. The Transmission and Critical Reception of Vanity Fair

    • Robert Giddings, Keith Selby, Chris Wensley
    Pages 162-170

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 171-174
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The book takes as its theme the relationship between literature and the contemporary means of production and distribution collectively termed 'the media' - in particular, film and television. The intention of the book is to explore and evaluate the mutual opportunities and restrictions in this relationship. In the grammar of our culture there seems to be an accepted opinion that print is superior in terms of cultural production to film, radio or television, that to read a book is somehow a 'higher' cultural activity than seeing a play on television or seeing a film. By the same token, a novel is a 'superior' work of art to film or television. The longer perspective reveals that traditionally there always is a greater respect paid to the previous mode of literary production - poetry was superior to drama, poetic drama was superior to the novel, and film attained cult and classic status initially over television.
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