Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
May 5, 2000
Publisher
Manchester University Press
ISBN-10
0719052300
ISBN-13
9780719052309
Description
This book critically examines the long established tradition of adapting classic novels to film or TV screen, encompassing novelists from Jane Austen to Michael Ondaatje. The early cinema ransacked literature for stories suitable for retelling in moving pictures, and as the art of the cinema matured, and cinematography, music, special effects and sound were improved, the art of dramatization began to produce high quality versions of respected novels. The authors in this book analyze a wide variety of literary dramatizations.
Genres
Art & Photography