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Persuasion and cinematic approaches to Jane Austen

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From: Literature/Film Quarterly
Date: 20020101
Author:Gottlieb, Sidney

Critics have limited our appreciation and understanding of recent cinematic adaptations of Jane Austen by emphasizing primarily the "literary" aspects of adaptation (e.g., examining what was left in, taken out, and added, the handling of dialogue, drama, and characterization, and so on) and narrowing the genre of these works to the socalled "heritage film," defined largely as a picturesque amalgam of "Grand homes, furnishings, costumes, and hairstyles" (Ross), productions reducible basically to what Jonathan Miller describes as "our longing for 'a golden age of propriety, decency, courtesy ...

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