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[ecrea] Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature

Thu Sep 06 22:50:57 GMT 2012



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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