[ecrea] Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature

Hila Shachar, /Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic 
Literature: Wuthering Heights and Company/ 
<http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=498910>, Palgrave 
Macmillan, 2012.
Book description: The image of Emily Brontë's famous characters, 
Catherine and Heathcliff, traversing the romantic English moors, has 
come to define the meaning of her nineteenth-century novel, /Wuthering 
Heights/. Yet, it is an image that has been invented by the novel's film 
and television adaptations. /Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations 
of Classic Literature/ examines what happens to literary works when they 
become part of cultural memory through continual screen adaptation. 
Moving from the 1930s to the current age, Hila Shachar explores the 
cultural legacy and screen 'afterlife' of Brontë's /Wuthering Heights/ 
alongside its company of other adaptations from the works of Charles 
Dickens, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and others. Shachar situates the 
analysis of these adaptations within a historical context, examining how 
cultural trends influence how a classic work is adapted, and in turn, 
how adaptations help shape perceptions about national identities, 
history and gender. The scope of this examination is wide, ranging from 
subjects such as feminism, heritage cinema, costume films, popular teen 
culture, music video television, neo-Victorianism, French cinema, the 
rise of English Studies, classic Hollywood cinema, and others. Written 
in a lively manner, this book offers a long overdue discussion of 
popular film and television adaptations that have not been examined 
before, providing an understanding of how these adaptations help shape 
our cultural landscape.
More details about the book are available on my publisher's web pages:
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=498910
http://us.macmillan.com/culturalafterlivesandscreenadaptationsofclassicliterature/HilaShachar
Best wishes,
Hila
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Dr Hila Shachar
Honorary Research Fellow
English and Cultural Studies, M202
The University of Western Australia
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