Screening Novel Women: From British Domestic Fiction to Film

Brosh, Liora

From Hollywood classics like Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights to the 1990s wave of Jane Austen films, adaptations of the British Nineteenth-century novel have been sensationally popular. This book examines how British and American filmmakers used the domestic novels of the past to construct stable gender ideals for the present.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349284115

DOI: 10.1057/9780230582415

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 173