Christine Geraghty is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. She is the author of Women and Soap Opera (1991) and British Cinema in the Fifties (2000).

This wide-ranging, multifaceted, accessible discussion thoughtfully addresses many understudied aspects of screen adaptation.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 1 Narrative and Characterisation in Classic Adaptations: David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Pride and PrejudiceChapter 3 2 Art Cinema, Authorship, and the Impossible Novel: Adaptations of Proust, Woolf, and JoyceChapter 4 3 Tennessee Williams on Film: Space, Melodrama, and StardomChapter 5 4 Feminism, Authorship, and Genre: Adaptations of the Novels of Edna Ferber and Pearl S BuckChapter 6 5 Revising the Western: Movement and Description in The Last of the Mohicans(1992) and Brokeback MountainChapter 7 6 Space, Setting, and Mobility in Old New York: The Heiress, The House of Mirth, and Gangs of New YorkChapter 8 ConclusionChapter 9 FilmographyChapter 10 Bibliography

Christine Geraghty is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. She is the author of Women and Soap Opera (1991) and British Cinema in the Fifties (2000).

This wide-ranging, multifaceted, accessible discussion thoughtfully addresses many understudied aspects of screen adaptation.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 1 Narrative and Characterisation in Classic Adaptations: David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Pride and PrejudiceChapter 3 2 Art Cinema, Authorship, and the Impossible Novel: Adaptations of Proust, Woolf, and JoyceChapter 4 3 Tennessee Williams on Film: Space, Melodrama, and StardomChapter 5 4 Feminism, Authorship, and Genre: Adaptations of the Novels of Edna Ferber and Pearl S BuckChapter 6 5 Revising the Western: Movement and Description in The Last of the Mohicans(1992) and Brokeback MountainChapter 7 6 Space, Setting, and Mobility in Old New York: The Heiress, The House of Mirth, and Gangs of New YorkChapter 8 ConclusionChapter 9 FilmographyChapter 10 Bibliography

Christine Geraghty is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. She is the author of Women and Soap Opera (1991) and British Cinema in the Fifties (2000).

This wide-ranging, multifaceted, accessible discussion thoughtfully addresses many understudied aspects of screen adaptation.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 1 Narrative and Characterisation in Classic Adaptations: David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Pride and PrejudiceChapter 3 2 Art Cinema, Authorship, and the Impossible Novel: Adaptations of Proust, Woolf, and JoyceChapter 4 3 Tennessee Williams on Film: Space, Melodrama, and StardomChapter 5 4 Feminism, Authorship, and Genre: Adaptations of the Novels of Edna Ferber and Pearl S BuckChapter 6 5 Revising the Western: Movement and Description in The Last of the Mohicans(1992) and Brokeback MountainChapter 7 6 Space, Setting, and Mobility in Old New York: The Heiress, The House of Mirth, and Gangs of New YorkChapter 8 ConclusionChapter 9 FilmographyChapter 10 Bibliography