San Antonio College Library

"This work of literary and film criticism examines all eight filmed adaptations of Jane Austen's Emma produced between 1948 and 1996 as vastly different interpretations of the source novel. Instead of condemning the movies and television specials as being "not as good as the book," Marc DiPaolo considers how each adaptation might be understood as a valid "reading" of Austen's text. For example, he demonstrates how the Gwyneth Paltrow film Emma is...