From Page To Screen: Adaptations of the Classic Novel

by Robert Giddings (Editor), Erica Sheen (Editor)

This book critically examines the long established tradition of adapting classic novels to film or TV screen, encompassing novelists from Jane Austen to Michael Ondaatje. The early cinema ransacked literature for stories suitable for retelling in moving pictures, and as the art of the cinema matured, and cinematography, music, special effects and sound were improved, the art of dramatization began to produce high quality versions of respected novels. The authors in this book analyze a wide variety of literary dramatizations.

272 pages, Hardcover

First published May 5, 2000

About the author

Robert Giddings (1936), professor emeritus at Bournemouth University, who has died aged 76, lived, taught, wrote and argued from a wheelchair, having been disabled by polio as a child. He produced 20 books, alone or in collaboration, and reviewed widely, for publications including the Listener, Observer, New Statesman and Tribune. Source