The Cambridge Companion to Literature on

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.

Notes on contributors	p. ix
Introduction - Literature on screen: a synoptic view	p. 1
Theories of Literature on Screen	p. 13
Reading film and literature	p. 15
Literature on screen, a history: in the gap	p. 29
History and Contexts	p. 45
Gospel narratives on silent film	p. 47
William Shakespeare, filmmaker	p. 61
The nineteenth-century novel on film: Jane Austen	p. 75
Modernism and adaptation	p. 90
Postmodern adaptation: pastiche, intertextuality and re-functioning	p. 107
Genre, Industry, Taste	p. 121
Heritage and literature on screen: Heimat and heritage	p. 123
"Don't let's ask for the moon!": reading and viewing the woman's film	p. 138
Post-classical fantasy cinema: The Lord of the Rings	p. 154
Adapting children's literature	p. 167
Literature on the small screen: television adaptations	p. 181
Beyond the "Literary"	p. 197
Classic literature and animation: all adaptations are equal, but some are more equal than others	p. 199
High fidelity? Music in screen adaptations	p. 212
From screen to text: novelization, the hidden continent	p. 226
A practical understanding of literature on screen: two conversations with Andrew Davies	p. 239
Further reading	p. 252
Index	p. 263
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