The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen

Deborah Cartmell, Imelda Whelehan

Cambridge University Press, May 10, 2007 - Performing Arts - 273 pages

This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, genre and adaptations for children. There are also case studies, such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the nineteenth-century novel and modernism, which allow the reader to place adaptations of the work of writers within a wider context. An interview with Andrew Davies, whose work includes Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Bleak House (2005), reveals the practical choices and challenges that face the professional writer and adaptor. The Companion as a whole provides an extensive survey of an increasingly popular field of study.

About the author

Imelda Whelehan is Professor in English and Women's Studies and Faculty Head of Research at De Montfort University, Leicester.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen; Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge collections online; Cambridge companions to topics
• Editors: Deborah Cartmell, Imelda Whelehan
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 0521614864, 9780521614863
• Length: 273 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Performing Arts / Film & Video / General