| Relocating Shakespeare and Austen on Screen 2009 Edition Contributor(s): Hopkins, Lisa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0230579558 ISBN-13: 9780230579552 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2009 Annotation: In this book, Lisa Hopkins analyzes eight film adaptations which have taken either Shakespeare or Jane Austen -- icons of Englishness -- out of their original geographical or cultural context and transposed them to a new location, allowing for a powerful interrogation both of what these texts mean in the modern world, and of Englishness itself. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.5" (0.75 lbs) 190 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Lisa Hopkins analyzes eight film adaptations which have taken either Shakespeare or Jane Austen - icons of Englishness - out of their original geographical or cultural context and transposed them to a new location, allowing for a powerful interrogation both of what these texts mean in the modern world, and of Englishness itself. |