Cambridge University Press, 11/27/2003EAN 9780521806527, ISBN10: 0521806526Hardcover, 238 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 2 cmLanguage: EnglishTelevision and film, not libraries or scholarship, have made Charles Dickens the most important unread novelist in English. It is not merely that millions of people feel comfortable deploying the word 'Dickensian' to describe their own and others' lives, but that many more people who have never read Dickens know what Dickensian means. They know about Dickens because they have access to over a century of adaptations for the big and small screen. Because Dickens has proven to be the most easily adapted of major novelists, he has become, somewhat ironically, one of the foremost novelists in the English canon. This is ironic because it was just this capacity to entertain that once confined him to the margins of the 'great tradition' in fiction. Dickens on Screen is an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike. It provides an exhaustive filmography and is well illustrated.List of illustrationsNotes on the contributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction John GlavinPart I1. Dickens, psychoanalysis and filma roundtable Gerhard JosephPart II2. David Copperfield's home movies John Bowen3. David Lean's Great Expectations Regina Barreca4. Great Expectations on Australian television John O. Jordan5. Dickens 'The Signalman' and Rubini's La Stazione Alessandro Vescovi6. Bill Murray's Christmas Carols Murray Baumgarten7. Screen memories in Dickens and Woody Allen Robert M. PolhemusPart III8. Writing after Dickensthe television writer's art John Romano9. Directing DickensAlfonso Cuaron's 1998 Pam Katz10. Playing Dickensan interview with Miriam MargolyesPart IV11. Cinematic Dickens and uncinematic words Kamilla Elliott12. Dickens, Eisenstein, film Garrett Stewart13. Orson Welles and Charles Dickens 1938–41 Marguerite Rippy14. David Copperfield (1935) and the US curriculum Steve J. Wurzler15. Dickens, Selznick, and Southpark Jeffrey Sconce16. Tiny Tim on screena disabilities perspective Martin F. NordenPart VDickens composedfilm and television adaptation 1897–2001 Kate Charnell Watt and Kate LonsdaleIndex.
