From Page To Screen Adaptations of the Classic Novel

This book critically examines the long established tradition of adapting classic novels to film or TV screen, encompassing novelists from Jane Austen to Michael Ondaatje. The early cinema ransacked literature for stories suitable for retelling in moving pictures, and as the art of the cinema matured, and cinematography, music, special effects and sound were improved, the art of dramatization began to produce high quality versions of respected novels. The authors in this book analyze a wide variety of literary dramatizations.

Robert Giddings is Professor of Communication and Culture at Bournemouth University.

Erica Sheen is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Sheffield.