From page to screen Adaptations of the classic novel [Paperback]

This book critically examines the long established tradition of adapting classic novels to film or TV screen. An emerging area of interest - the relationship between film and literature and the way cinema and television have translated classic novels into moving pictures from the 30s to the 90s. A wide-ranging but focused collection that is bang up to date and free of media jargon that looks at both the film and the book. Includes discussion of: The English Patient, Pride and Prejudice and Middlemarch, Pickwick Papers, Dracula, Dickens, Conrad, Hardy and Waugh.

1. Introduction

2. Pickwick Papers: beyond that place and time (Robert Giddings)

3. Where the garment gapes: Faithfulness and promiscuity in the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice (Erica Sheen)

4. Sentimentality, sex and sadism: the 1935 version of Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop (Jenny Dennett)

5. Beholding a magic panorama: television and the illustration of Middlemarch (Ian Mackillop & Alison Platt)

6. Hardy, history and hokum (Keith Selby)

7. A taste of the gothic: Film and television versions of Dracula (Jonathon Bignell)

8. Times of death in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent and Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage (Suzanne Spiedel)

9. Lids tend to come off: David Lean's film of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India (Neil Sinyard)

10. Brideshead Revisited revisited (Fred Inglis)

11. Piecing together a mirage: Adapting the English Patient for the screen (Bronwen Thomas)

Robert Giddings is Professor of Communication and Culture at Bournemouth University

Erica Sheen is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Sheffield