Dickens and the dream of cinema

by Graham Smith

Overview

An original blending of literary and film studies which seeks to dissolve barriers between the two disciplines. Offers a new reading of Dickens from the perspective of film, technology and visuality. Proposes a new reading of the emergence of film in the light of social and industrial transformations. Suggests that Dickens was one of the forces which contributed to the appearance of film towards the end of the nineteenth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719055638
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	09/30/2013
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Grahame Smith is Professor (Emeritus) of English Studies at the University of Stirling

Table of Contents

1. Exploratory
2. Machines and things: seeing and being seen
3. Explanation
4. A tale of two cities: Paris as panorama/ London as labyrinth
5. The magic carpet of technology
6. Dickens, theatre and spectacle
7. Adaptation
8. Novel into film: the case of 'Little Dorrit'
9. Language and form
A Dream Epilogue Charles Dickens and Orson Welles
Select bibliography
Index