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Afterword: Why Civil War Matters, Why This Book Matters, Marc Dipaolo
Afterword: Why Civil War Matters, Why This Book Matters, Marc Dipaolo
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Afterword by Marc DiPaolo
Originally published in "Marvel Comics' Civil War and the Age of Terror: Critical Essays on the Comic Saga" ed. by Kevin Michael Scott.
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Emma Adapted: Jane Austen’S Heroine From Book To Film, Marc Dipaolo
Emma Adapted: Jane Austen’S Heroine From Book To Film, Marc Dipaolo
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"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 both a romance and a female coming-of-age story, the 1972 BBC miniseries dramatizes Emma’s world as claustrophobic and Emma herself as suffering from depression, and the modern-day teen …