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This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, genre and adaptations for children. There are also case studies, such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the nineteenth-century novel and modernism, which allow the reader to place adaptations of the work of writers within a wider context. An interview with Andrew Davies, whose work includes Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Bleak House (2005), reveals the practical choices and challenges that face the professional writer and adaptor. The Companion as a whole provides an extensive survey of an increasingly popular field of study.
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THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO LITERATURE ON SCREEN This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, and adaptations for children. There are also case studies on, for example, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the nineteenthcentury novel, and modernism, which allow the reader to place adaptations of the work of writers within a wider context. An interview with Andrew Davies, whose adaptation work includes Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Bleak House (2005), reveals the practical choices and challenges that face the professional writer and adaptor. The Companion, as a whole, provides an extensive survey of an increasingly popular field of study. A complete list of books in the series is at the back of this book. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO LITERATURE ON SCREEN THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO LITERATURE ON SCREEN EDITED BY DEBORAH CARTMELL AND IMELDA WHELEHAN CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sa˜o Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521614863 # Cambridge University Press 2007 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2007 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library ISBN 978-0-521-84962-3 hardback ISBN 978-0-521-61486-3 paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. CONTENTS Notes on contributors page ix Introduction – Literature on screen: a synoptic view DEBORAH CARTMELL AND IMELDA WHELEHAN PART ONE 1 THEORIES OF LITERATURE ON SCREEN 15 Literature on screen, a history: in the gap 29 TIMOTHY CORRIGAN PART TWO 3 HISTORY AND CONTEXTS 75 Modernism and adaptation MARTIN HALLIWELL 7 61 The nineteenth-century novel on film: Jane Austen LINDA V. TROOST 6 47 William Shakespeare, filmmaker DOUGLAS LANIER 5 45 Gospel narratives on silent film JUDITH BUCHANAN 4 13 Reading film and literature BRIAN McFARLANE 2 1 90 Postmodern