Deborah Cartmell - A Companion to Literature, Film and Adaptation

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A companion to literature, film, and adaptation / edited by Deborah Cartmell.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-4443-3497-5 (cloth)

1. Film adaptationsHistory and criticism. 2. Television adaptationsHistory and criticism. 3. English literatureAdaptations. 4. American literatureAdaptations. 5. Motion pictures and literature. 6. Television and literature. I. Cartmell, Deborah.

PN1997.85.C64 2012

791.43'6dc23

2012008957

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Cover image: James McAvoy and Keira Knightley in Atonement, directed by Joe Wright, 2007. Image courtesy of Focus Features / The Kobal Collection, Alex Bailey.

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Contributors

Judith Buchanan is author of Shakespeare on Silent Film (2009), Shakespeare on Film (2005), editor of The Writer on Film: Screening Literary Authorship (forthcoming) and runs the Film and Literature program at the University of York.

Richard Burt is Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida. His most recent book is entitled Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media (2008; paperback 2010).

Richard Butt is Head of Media, Communication and Performing Arts at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. His publications include essays in Critical Studies in Television and From Tartan to Tartanry: Scottish Culture, History and Myth (2010).

Deborah Cartmell is Professor of English at De Montfort University and co-editor of two international journals, Adaptation (Oxford University Press) and Shakespeare (Routledge). She is currently working on a history of screen adaptations.

Shelley Cobb is a Lecturer at the University of Southampton. She has published on adaptation, Jane Campion, chick flicks, and celebrity; and is writing a monograph entitled Women, Adaptation and Post-feminist Filmmaking.

Kamilla Elliott is a Senior Lecturer in English at Lancaster University. She is author of Rethinking the Novel/Film Debate (2003) and Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction: The Rise of Picture Identification, 17641835 (2012).

Christine Geraghty is an Honorary Research Fellow (Glasgow University and Goldsmiths, University of London). Publications include Now a Major Motion Picture (2008) and a study of Bleak House (BBC, 2005) in 2012.

Pamela Church Gibson is Reader in Cultural & Historical Studies at the London College of Fashion, editor of the journal of Film, Fashion & Consumption and author of Fashion & Celebrity Culture (2011).

Yvonne Griggs is a Lecturer at De Montfort University and has published articles in a number of leading adaptations journals. Her study of King Lear on screen was published by Methuen in 2009.

Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University. Her publications include Relocating Shakespeare and Austen on Screen (2009) and Shakespeares The Tempest : The Relationship between Text and Film (2008).

Richard J. Hand is Professor of Theatre and Media Drama at the University of Glamorgan. He is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance .