Andrew MacDonald

Jane Austen on screen

Jane Austen on Screen is a collection of essays exploring the literary and cinematic implications of translating Austen’s prose into film. Contributors raise questions of how prose fiction and cinema differ, of how mass commercial audiences require changes to script and character, and of how continually remade films evoke memories of earlier productions. The essays represent widely divergent perspectives, from literary “purists” suspicious of filmic renderings of Austen to filmmakers who see the text as a stimulus for producing exceptional cinema. Theoretical issues are explored in balance with the practical concerns of literature-to-film conversions: casting choices, authenticity of settings, script “amputations” of the original prose, anachronisms, relevance for modern mass audiences, and the intertextuality informing the production of much-remade works. This comprehensive study, including an exhaustive Austen bibliography and filmography, will be of interest to students and teachers alike.

Jane Austen on Screen: List of illustrations

Jane Austen on Screen is a collection of essays exploring the literary and cinematic implications of translating Austen’s prose into film. Contributors raise questions of how prose fiction and cinema differ, of how mass commercial audiences require changes to script and character, and of how continually remade films evoke memories of earlier productions. The essays represent widely divergent perspectives, from literary “purists” suspicious of filmic renderings of Austen to filmmakers who see the text as a stimulus for producing exceptional cinema. Theoretical issues are explored in balance with the practical concerns of literature-to-film conversions: casting choices, authenticity of settings, script “amputations” of the original prose, anachronisms, relevance for modern mass audiences, and the intertextuality informing the production of much-remade works. This comprehensive study, including an exhaustive Austen bibliography and filmography, will be of interest to students and teachers alike.

Jane Austen on Screen: Acknowledgments

Jane Austen on Screen is a collection of essays exploring the literary and cinematic implications of translating Austen’s prose into film. Contributors raise questions of how prose fiction and cinema differ, of how mass commercial audiences require changes to script and character, and of how continually remade films evoke memories of earlier productions. The essays represent widely divergent perspectives, from literary “purists” suspicious of filmic renderings of Austen to filmmakers who see the text as a stimulus for producing exceptional cinema. Theoretical issues are explored in balance with the practical concerns of literature-to-film conversions: casting choices, authenticity of settings, script “amputations” of the original prose, anachronisms, relevance for modern mass audiences, and the intertextuality informing the production of much-remade works. This comprehensive study, including an exhaustive Austen bibliography and filmography, will be of interest to students and teachers alike.

Jane Austen on Screen: Contents

Jane Austen on Screen is a collection of essays exploring the literary and cinematic implications of translating Austen’s prose into film. Contributors raise questions of how prose fiction and cinema differ, of how mass commercial audiences require changes to script and character, and of how continually remade films evoke memories of earlier productions. The essays represent widely divergent perspectives, from literary “purists” suspicious of filmic renderings of Austen to filmmakers who see the text as a stimulus for producing exceptional cinema. Theoretical issues are explored in balance with the practical concerns of literature-to-film conversions: casting choices, authenticity of settings, script “amputations” of the original prose, anachronisms, relevance for modern mass audiences, and the intertextuality informing the production of much-remade works. This comprehensive study, including an exhaustive Austen bibliography and filmography, will be of interest to students and teachers alike.

Jane Austen on Screen: Index

Jane Austen on Screen is a collection of essays exploring the literary and cinematic implications of translating Austen’s prose into film. Contributors raise questions of how prose fiction and cinema differ, of how mass commercial audiences require changes to script and character, and of how continually remade films evoke memories of earlier productions. The essays represent widely divergent perspectives, from literary “purists” suspicious of filmic renderings of Austen to filmmakers who see the text as a stimulus for producing exceptional cinema. Theoretical issues are explored in balance with the practical concerns of literature-to-film conversions: casting choices, authenticity of settings, script “amputations” of the original prose, anachronisms, relevance for modern mass audiences, and the intertextuality informing the production of much-remade works. This comprehensive study, including an exhaustive Austen bibliography and filmography, will be of interest to students and teachers alike.

ESl Tutors: Simulated Friends

ESL peer tutors can serve as professional friends who simulate the dynamics of the casual, interpersonal relationships so vital to stimulating language learning and so difficult to achieve in reality. Tutors are &dquo;professional&dquo; in that they are paid workers doing a job. They are also &dquo;friends,&dquo; however, in that they act in many ways indistinguishable from those of real friends. In doing so, tutors can help enrich the experience of the isolated international student.