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Jane Austen in Hollywood /

In 1995 and 1996 six film or television adaptations of Jane Austen's novels were produced-an unprecedented number. More amazing, all were critical and/or box office successes. What accounts for this explosion of interest? Much of the appeal of these films lies in our nostalgic desire at the end...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Troost, Linda, 1957-, Greenfield, Sayre N., 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2001.
Edición:2nd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Watching ourselves watching / Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield
  • Out of the drawing room, onto the lawn / Rachel M. Brownstein
  • Balancing the courtship hero: masculine emotional display in film adaptations of Austen's novels / Cheryl L. Nixon
  • Misrepresenting Jane Austen's ladies: revising texts (and history) to sell films / Rebecca Dickson
  • Austen, class, and the American market / Carol M. Dole
  • Jane Austen, film, and the pitfalls of postmodern nostalgia / Amanda Collins
  • "A correct taste in landscape": Pemberley as fetish and commodity / H. Elisabeth Ellington
  • Mr. Darcy's body: privileging the female gaze / Lisa Hopkins
  • Emma becomes clueless / Suzanne Ferriss
  • "As if!": translating Austen's ironic narrator to film / Nora Nachumi
  • Emma Thompson's Sense and sensibility as gateway to Austen's novel / M. Casey Diana
  • "Piracy is our only option": postfeminist intervention in Sense and sensibility / Kristin Flieger Samuelian
  • Feminist implications of the silver screen Austen / Devoney Looser
  • Mass marketing Jane Austen: men, women, and courtship in two film adaptations / Deborah Kaplan
  • The mouse that roared: Patricia Rozema's Mansfield Park / Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield.