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Bleak House: BFI TV Classics

Autor Christine Geraghty
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 sep 2012
A new edition to our BFI TV Classics series, this analysis of BBC's Bleak House aims to analyze this critically acclaimed production in terms of its adaptation status, narrative organization, acting, setting and mise-en-scene, while also using it to comment on more general issues in television studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781844574179
ISBN-10: 1844574172
Pagini: 139
Ilustrații: 53 colour photos
Dimensiuni: 135 x 190 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Ediția:2012
Editura: British Film Institute
Colecția British Film Institute
Seria BFI TV Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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A new edition to our BFI TV Classics series, this analysis of BBC's Bleak House aims to analyze this critically acclaimed production in terms of its adaptation status, narrative organization, acting, setting and mise-en-scene, while also using it to comment on more general issues in television studies.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments.- Introduction: Dickens and Television.- The Classic Serial.- Serialisation and Soaps.- 
The Problem with Esther.- Narrative Organisation and the Double Story.- Characterisation and Performance.- Settings.-  'Illustrating' Bleak House.- Conclusion: Classic Television.- Notes.- Appendix: The Beginning and Ending of Each Episode.- Bibliography.- Credits.- Index.

Notă biografică

CHRISTINE GERAGHTY is Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Glasgow and Honorary Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author ofNow a Major Motion Picture: Film Adaptations from Literature and Drama(2008);My Beautiful Laundrette(2004);British Cinema in the Fifties: Gender, Genre and the 'New Look'(2000); andWomen and Soap Opera(1990), and editor, with David Lusted, ofThe Television Studies Book(1998

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Bleak Houseis 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, published in the serial form now associated with television drama, was also one of the first successful detective stories. In 2005, the BBC announced a major new adaptation, scripted by Andrew Davies, produced by double-BAFTA winner Nigel Stafford-Clark, and starring Gillian Anderson as Lady Dedlock.

Broadcast over eight hours in fifteen episodes, thisBleak House, in an appeal to youthful audiences, controversially combined the suspense of soap opera with visual innovation, careful attention to period detail, and outstanding performances.

Christine Geraghty's revealing study traces the double narrative in which the youthful protagonists grow into adulthood while the doomed Lady Dedlock is hunted to death in a tele-noir adaptation of the British novel's first detective story. She examines how the different styles of acting relate to Dickens's own vivid characterisation, taking issue with Davies's attitude to Dickens's most complex heroine, Esther Summerson. She explores the series' settings, including a London styled as a soap-opera set, and the great country houses where secrets are kept under wrap. And, using illustrations from the novel, she looks at how the traditional Dickensian 'pictures' were innovatively combined with HD visuals to powerful effect.

This fascinating study strongly makes the case for the contemporary BBC adaptation ofBleak Houseas a true television classic.

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First detailed analysis of BBC's television series production of Bleak House
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