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Emma adapted; Jane Austen's heroine from book to film.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Emma adapted; Jane Austen's heroine from book to film.

Di Paolo, Marc.

Peter Lang Publishing Inc

2007

190 pages

$67.95

Hardcover

PR4034

DiPaolo (communications and English, Alvernia College) considers the eight film and television adaptations of Jane Austen's Emma produced between 1948 and 1996, with emphasis on the most recent ones, viewing them as different "readings" of the novel. He makes interpretive and critical connections between them and the novel, describes how the films deviate from it, and discusses how these ...

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