Screen Adaptations: Great Expectations A Close Study of the Relationship Between Text and Film

Name: Screen Adaptations: Great Expectations A Close Study of the Relationship Between Text and Film
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ISBN: 9780713679090

ISBN-10: 0713679093

ISBN-13: 9780713679090

Edition: 2008

Authors: Brian McFarlane, Deborah Cartmell

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This is a close study of the relationship between the 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. Focusing on David Lean's film of Great Expectations, the book discusses the literary work in its historical context, its key themes and dominant readings, how it has been 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…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 4/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.06" wide x 7.81" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

Brian McFarlane is Honorary Associate Professor at Monash University. His books include The Encyclopedia of British Film(co-authored, 2003) and An Autobiography of British Cinema(1997).




Literary contexts


An enduringly popular novel



From text to screen


Adaptations and extrapolations across the media


Great Expectations on 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



The afterlife of Lean's film


A film of its time - and for other times


Bibliography


Index