Screen Adaptations Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations: The Relationship between Text and Film

✍ Scribed by Brian McFarlane; Imelda Whelehan (editor)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 207
• Series: Screen Adaptations
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A close study of the relationship between text and film versions of Great Expectations. Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material to support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions provide different readings of the original text.
Focussing on David Lean's film of Great Expectations, the book discusses: the literary text in its historical context, key themes and dominant readings of the text, how the text is adapted for screen and how adaptations have changed our reading of the original text. There are numerous excerpts from the literary text, screenplays and shooting scripts, with suggestions for comparison. The book also features quotations from authors, screenwriters, directors, critics and others linked with the chosen film and text.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Introduction and acknowledgments
Filmography and credits for key films
Part One: Literary contexts
An enduringly popular novel
Part Two: From text to screen
Adaptations and extrapolations across the media
Great Expectationson television
Great Expectations(1934): a Hollywood studio romance
Great Expectations(1975): a musical sans songs
Great Expectations(1998): from estuary to gulf, to Manhattan and back
Great Expectations(1946): something like a classic
Part Three: The afterlife of Lean’s film
A film of its time – and for other times
Bibliography
Index
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