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Star Adaptations: Queen Biopics of the 1930s
At the root of the biopic’s critical rather than commercial estimation is that it is a genre that ‘belongs’ to the actor. Drawing on pressbooks, trailers, trade and fan magazines, this chapter considers the fo...
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A Short History of Adaptation Studies in the Classroom
Adaptation studies is a growth area in the Arts and Humanities and has brought numerous multidisciplinary perspectives to what used to be more commonly known as ‘novel to film’ or ‘literature and film’ studies...
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Teaching Adaptations through Marketing: Adaptations and the Language of Advertising in the 1930s
F. R. Leavis identified advertising as the lowest and most insidious form of writing and in its blatant underhanded methods and shameless materialism, he put it to use to expose the tackiness of writers who ai...
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Becoming Jane in screen adaptations of Austen’s fiction
Austen’s popularity as a novelist has always been, for better or worse, intertwined with her mystique as a single woman. The fact that she left so little evidence of her personal self behind has led readers to...
