Jane Austen and Co.: Remaking the Past in Contemporary Culture
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (584 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0791456161 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 284 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Suzanne R. Pucci is Associate Professor of French at the University of Kentucky.James Thompson is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Blum, Mike Crang, Madeline Dobie, Denise Fulbrook, Deidre Lynch, Sarah Maza, Ruth Perry, Suzanne R. Contributors include Virginia L. explores the ways in which classical novels particularly, but not exclusively, those of Jane Austen have been transformed into artifacts of contemporary popular culture. offer a wide-ranging model for understanding how all of these texts visual, literary, touristic, British, American, French reshape the past in the new fashions, styles, media, and desires of the present. Examining recent films, television shows, Internet sites, and even historical tours, the book turns from the question of Austen s contemporary appeal to a broader consideration of other late-twentieth-century remakes, including Dangerous Liaisons, Dracula, Lolita, and even Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Pucci, Kristina Straub, James Thompson, Maureen Turim, and Martine Voiret.". Taken together, the essays in Jane Austen and Co. Jane Austen and Co
We already live within a type of reality Austen has constructed, and our remodeling of that reality in the present at once displays varieties of clashes, lacunae, significations, parodies, and dilemmas. What makes the revisiting of Austen a box office commercial phenomenon witness Clueless and Bridget Jones s Diary is our postmodern climate, what the editors call present cultural concerns. Joseph Natoli, author of Postmodern Journeys: Film and Culture 1996-1998" . This is an interesting, often witty, and absolutely informative book
Not Just for Janeites Austen reader Jane Austen and Co. is an interesting and fairly thorough look at our current culture's obsession with recreating the past through film. The essays are scholarly without being overly dry, and could appeal to a more casual reader. Some are better than others, but they are all pretty perceptive and realize that history on screen says more about the present than the past. Au. "Okay--but not as title would suggest." according to Jessica M. Harris. This is okay--there is a good snippet about pemberley.com that would appeal to janieties. For myself, I prefer "Jane Austen on Screen"Perhaps better borrowed from the university library as there are no revelations in this book.