English Filming, English Writing
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AlbakiReads Editorial English identity on screen, from wartime film to literary adaptation
English identity on screen, from wartime film to literary adaptation
Jefferson Hunter maps a twentieth-century conversation between English film, television drama, literature, and cultural identity. The book links English crime drama to both American genre influence and George Orwell’s writing, while examining how music and image shape screen works including Brief Encounter and Look Back in Anger. Wartime concerns about a threatened sense of Englishness frame discussion of A Canterbury Tale, Listen to Britain, village pageants, and related cultural expressions. Hunter also considers adaptation across television and cinema through the BBC’s 1985 Bleak House and Merchant-Ivory’s The Remains of the Day. The range of examples makes it a study of how screen media rework literary and national ideas across several decades.
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- Students of film, television, and screenwriting
- Readers interested in twentieth-century English cultural identity
- Those studying literary adaptation for screen
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Englishness and national identityFilm and television dramaLiterary adaptationCrime dramaWartime culture
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Book Overview Jefferson Hunter examines English films and television dramas as they relate to English culture in the 20th century. He traces themes suc...
Jefferson Hunter examines English films and television dramas as they relate to English culture in the 20th century. He traces themes such as the influence of U.S. crime drama on English film, and film adaptations of literary works as they appear in screen work from the 1930s to the present. A Canterbury Tale and the documentary Listen to Britain are analyzed in the context of village pageants and other wartime explorations of Englishness at risk. English crime dramas are set against the writings of George Orwell, while a famous line from Noel Coward leads to a discussion of music and image in works like Brief Encounter and Look Back in Anger. Screen adaptation is also broached in analyses of the 1985 BBC version of Dickens's Bleak House and Merchant-Ivory's The Remains of the Day.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 376 | Language: English | Publisher: INDIANA UNIV PR | ISBN: 0253221773
FormatPaperback
Pages376
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0253221773
EAN9780253221773
PublisherINDIANA UNIV PR
Publication Date2010-04-05
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight1.08 Pounds
Length6.44 Inches
Width9.0 Inches
Height0.92 Inches
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