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Cultural afterlives and screen adaptations of classic literature : Wuthering Heights and company
- Title
- Cultural afterlives and screen adaptations of classic literature : Wuthering Heights and company / Hila Shachar.
- Author
- Shachar, Hila.
- Publication
- Basingstoke [etc.] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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- Description
- xi, 228 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Film and television adaptations of classic literature have held a longstanding appeal for audiences, an appeal that this book sets out to examine. With a particular focus on Wuthering Heights, the book examines adaptations made from the 1930s to the twenty-first century, providing an understanding of how they help shape our cultural landscape"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-220) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: the screen afterlife of Wuthering Heights -- Before the afterlife: analysing Wuthering Heights -- The Cinema of spectacle: establishing the Wuthering Heights tradition on the eve of Hollywood's golden era -- Moving backward, looking forward: Jacques Rivette's Hurlevent -- Wuthering Heights in the 1990s: Peter Kosminsky's ambitious narrative -- Catherine and Heathcliff for the Y Generation: MTV's modernisation of Wuthering Heights -- Critical legacies and contemporary audiences: the politics of Neo-Victorianism in ITV's 2009 adaptation of Wuthering Heights -- Afterword: myths and demystification.
- Call Number
- MFL 13-172
- ISBN
- 9780230294042 (hardback)
- 0230294049 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2012023566
- 40021397568
- OCLC
- 785873630
- Author
- Shachar, Hila.
- Title
- Cultural afterlives and screen adaptations of classic literature : Wuthering Heights and company / Hila Shachar.
- Imprint
- Basingstoke [etc.] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-220) and index.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40021397568
- Research Call Number
- MFL 13-172