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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: history of British literature on film, 1895-2015
  name:
    name part: Semenza, Gregory M. Colón
    name part: 1972-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Hasenfratz, Robert J.
    name part: 1957-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 474 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: From The Death of Nancy Sykes (1897) to The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) and beyond, cinematic adaptations of British literature participate in a complex and fascinating history. The History of British Literature on Film, 1895-2015 is the only comprehensive narration of cinema's 100-year-old love affair with British literature. Unlike previous studies of literature and film, which tend to privilege particular authors such as Shakespeare and Jane Austen, or particular texts such as Frankenstein, or particular literary periods such as medieval, this volume considers the multiple functions of filmed British literature as a cinematic subject in its own right,one reflecting the specific political and aesthetic priorities of different national and historical cinemas. In what ways has the British literary canon authorized and influenced the history and aesthetics of film, and in what ways has filmed British literature both affirmed and challenged the very idea of literary canonicity? Seeking to answer these and other key questions, this indispensable study shows how these adaptations emerged from and continue to shape the social, artistic and commercial spects of film history.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: 'Weird, Mystical, Barbaric': Brit-lit on Film, 1896-1906 Chapter 2: 'Crude, Vicious, and Lascivious Entertainments': The Arrival of the Brit-lit Film, 1907-1920 Chapter 3: The High Silent Era (1920-1929)Chapter 4: The Talkies (1929-1938) Chapter 5: War and its Aftermath: (1939-1954)Chapter 6: The Legacy of Auteurism: 1954-1970s Chapter 7: The Brit-Lit Film as Genre: 1970s-1989 Chapter 8: Globalism, Independence, and Beyond: 1990-2010.
  note: Greg M. Colón Semenza and Bob Hasenfratz.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures and literature
  subject:
    topic: British literature
    topic: Film adaptations
  subject:
    topic: Film adaptations
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
  classification: PN1995.3 .S46 2015
  classification: 791.43/6
  related item:
    title info:
      title: History of world literatures on film, 1895-2015
  identifier: 9781623560430 (hardcover)
  identifier: 1623560438 (hardcover)
  identifier: 2015000517
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150120
    record change date: 20151105204843.0
    record identifier: in00003526890