Authors: Sarah Cardwell
ISBN-13: 9780719060465, ISBN-10: 071906046X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Date Published: November 2002
Edition: New Edition
Sarah Cardwell is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
The classic novel adaptation has long been regarded as a staple of "quality" television. Adaptation Revisited offers a critical reappraisal of this prolific and popular genre, as well as bringing new material into the broader field of Television Studies. The first part of the book surveys the more traditional discourses about adaptation, unearthing the unspoken assumptions and common misconceptions that underlie them. In the second half of the book, the author examines four major British serials: "Brideshead Revisited", "Pride and Prejudice", "Moll Flanders", and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall".
List of figures | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. I | (Re)writing adaptations | |
1 | What is (an) adaptation? | 9 |
2 | Criticism revisited | 31 |
3 | Theory revisited | 43 |
4 | Television adaptations in the televisual context | 77 |
Pt. II | The adaptations | |
Introduction to Part II | 105 | |
5 | Brideshead Revisited (1981) | 108 |
6 | Pride and Prejudice (1995) | 133 |
7 | The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) | 160 |
8 | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996) | 185 |
9 | Reconfiguring the genre | 205 |
Bibliography | 211 | |
Filmography | 222 | |
Index | 227 |