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The impossibility of filming 'Jane Austen', or at least six degrees of separation

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posted on 2024-07-13, 01:45 authored by Brian McFarlaneBrian McFarlane
The inverted commas in the title of this article are crucial to the sort of line I want to pursue when considering film adaptations of Jane Austen novels. I'm interested in what can and can't be filmed. Whatever a filmmaker tackling Pride and Prejudice, for instance, comes up with, it won't be 'Jane Austen', and the attempts that interest me most are those that seem to have accepted this notion and show a filmmaker with a point of view about certain elements in the novel that bears Austen's name. I even begin to question the use of the term 'adaptation'.

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1449-857X

Journal title

Screen Education

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57

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5 pp

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Australian Teachers of Media

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Copyright © 2010. The published version is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

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eng

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