Literature Through The Lens
Two children must die in following the rules of the 'Game' – which they invented as their own bizarre version of life itself. Paul and Elisabeth, brother and sister, share and sleep in the same room.
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A hauntingly atmospheric film of Jean Cocteau’s claustrophobic, hothouse novel, for which Cocteau wrote the screenplay and provided the voice-over, Les Enfants Terrible is dominated by the performance of fierce intensity by Nicole Stephane as Elisabeth. |
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This novel's heroine, Lily Bart, is beautiful, poor, and unmarried at 29. In her search for a husband with money and position she betrays her own heart and sows the seeds of the tragedy that finally overwhelms her. |
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ESSAYS ON 'THE HOUSE OF MIRTH' Edith Wharton's 'The House of Mirth' captured the attention of a large portion of the reading public when it was published in a serial version in 'Scribner's' for most of 1905 and then as a hardback in October of that year. Each of the four articles collected in this volume makes distinctive new claims for the historical, critical, and theoretical significance of Wharton's seminal work. |
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First published in 1953, this is Bradbury's prophetic dystopian vision of a weird but too distant future where happiness is allocated on a four-walled TV screen, where individuals, eccentrics and scholars are outcasts of society and where books are burnt by a special task-force. |
Francois Truffaut adaptation of Ray Bradbury's best selling science fiction work, about a world where books are forbidden. |
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When Laura dumps Rob (on the very first page) he is aggrieved and exhilarated, 35 and petrified. Trying to work out what went wrong, obsessed with music, and running an ailing record shop, he sets out on the road to self-discovery. This is the first novel from the author of 'Fever Pitch'. |
This screenplay is adapted from Nick Hornby's British novel, here transported to Chicago. |
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High Fidelity - Original Soundtrack Far too often, a film comes out and it seems as if someone’s spent about five minutes compiling the soundtrack. But this isn’t the case with the ‘High Fidelity’ album, and the result is an eclectic selection of music from the past thirty years or so. |
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The narrator returns to Paris after World War I, and reflects on his past life as the raw material for literature. |
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Mansfield Park is a study of three families - the Bertrams, the Crawfords, and the Prices - with the isolated figure of the heroine, Fanny Price, at its centre. Fanny's quiet passivity, her steadfast loyalty and love for the son of the family who regard her as the poor relation, are among the qualities whose true worth is not appreciated until they are tried against the brilliant and witty Mary and Henry Crawford, the unfortunate consequences of whose influence are felt by everyone. |
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This work presents Helen Cooper's version of Strindberg's disturbing tale of the battle between the sexes and class conflict. It has been published to coincide with a film by Mike Figgis, based on Cooper's adaptaion. |
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"Titus Andronicus" was the young Shakespeare's audacious experiment in sensational tragedy. Its horrors are notorious, but its powerful poetry of grief is the work of a true tragic poet. |
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Shakespeare On Film Film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays are increasingly popular and figure prominently in the study of his work and its reception. The first Keswick Film Festival featured a programme of Shakespeare films shown at the Theatre By The Lake. |
The essays in this volume read the Shakespeare films of the 1990s as key instruments with which western culture confronts the anxieties attendant upon the transition from one century to another. Such films as "Hamlet", "Love's Labour's Lost", "Othello", "Shakespeare in Love" and "William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet", the contributors maintain, engage with some of the most pressing concerns of the present, apocalyptic condition, familial crisis, social estrangement, urban blight, cultural hybridity, literary authority, the impact of technology and the end of history. The volume includes an exclusive interview with Kenneth Branagh. |
This companion is a collection of critical and historical essays on the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare's plays. An international team of leading scholars discuss Shakespearean films from a variety of perspectives: as works of art in their own right; as products of the international movie industry; in terms of cinematic and theatrical genres; and as the work of particular directors from Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles to Franco Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh. |
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