Screen Adaptation

DEBORAH CARTMELL is Reader in English at De Montfort University, UK. She is editor of the journals Shakespeare and Adaptation and has published widely on film adaptations of literary classics.IMELDA WHELEHAN is Professor of English and Women's Studies at De Montfort University, UK. She is the author of Modern Feminist Thought, Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones' Diary and The Feminist Bestseller. She is co-editor of the journal Adaptation and has published widely on adaptation studies.

• IntroductionAdaptations: Theories, Interpretations and the New DilemmasFilm on Literature: Film as the New ShakespeareLiterature on Film: Writers on Adaptations in the Early Twentieth CenturyAuthorial Suicide: Adaptation as Appropriationin Peter PanBeyond Fidelity: Transtextual ApproachesGeneric Adaptations: Genre, Hollywood, Shakespeare, AustenA Simple Twist? The Gentrification of Nineteenth Century FictionLes Liaisons Dangereuses: Letters on ScreenConclusion: Impure Cinema Another Apology for AdaptationsBibliographyFilmography.