Now a Major Motion Picture is a unique look at the many sources, literary and otherwise, that influence film adaptations. Christine Geraghty subverts the idea that film adaptations of novels and plays
Geraghty (film and television studies, U. of Glasgow, UK) considers adaptations of literature to film, approaching the concept of adaptation not as fidelity to the original text but as how adaptations
My Beautiful Laundrette is a phenomenon, a small television film which became a political and social landmark, a classic which speaks to audiences today. It is as a gay romance, a lesson in ethnic div
Bleak House is one of Charles Dickens's darker works: a vision of London as the polluted, diseased heart of an industrialising nation. This great novel of inheritance, corruption and mystery, publishe
As representations of history, period dramas perform serious work, and can be used to discuss both historical and contemporary issues (voting rights, war and trauma, reproductive rights). The contribu
