Jane Austen on Screen

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Jane Austen on Screen is written by Gina MacDonald and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521797284 (ISBN 10) and 9780521797283 (ISBN 13).

This collection of essays explores the literary and cinematic implications of translating Austen's prose into film. Contributors raise questions of how prose fiction and cinema differ, of how mass commercial audiences require changes to script and character, and of how continually remade films evoke memories of earlier productions. The essays represent widely divergent perspectives, from literary 'purists' suspicious of filmic renderings of Austen to film-makers who see the text as a stimulus for producing exceptional cinema. This comprehensive study will be of interest to students and teachers alike.