Agatha Christie on Screen

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-349-67695-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 363 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 5737 g

Reihe: Crime Files

This book is a comprehensive exploration of 90 years of film and television adaptations of the world’s best-selling novelist’s work. Drawing on extensive archival material, it offers new information regarding both the well-known and forgotten screen adaptations of Agatha Christie’s stories, including unmade and rare adaptations, some of which have been unseen for more than half a century. This history offers intriguing insights into the discussions and debates that surrounded many of these screen projects – something that is brought to life through previously unpublished correspondence from Christie herself and a new wide-ranging interview with her grandson, Mathew Prichard. Agatha Christie on Screen takes the reader on a journey from little known silent film adaptations, through to famous screen productions including 1974’s Murder on the Orient Express , as well as the television series of the Poirot and Miss Marple stories and, most recently, the BBC’s acclaimed version of And Then There Were None .

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aldridge, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.-  PART I.Destination Unknown .- Chapter 1. The Silent Adventures.- Chapter 2. Poirot Comes to the Silver Screen.- PART II.Appointment with Death .- Chapter 3. The Early Television Adaptations.- Chapter 4. New Prospects and Problems in Television.- PART III.   Wasps’ Nest .- Chapter 5. Christie Films Make an Impact.- Chapter 6. Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple.-  PART IV . Evil Under the Sun .- Chapter 7. A New Era for Agatha Christie Films.- Chapter 8. Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot.- PART V. Partners in Crime .- Chapter 9. Christie Comes Back to Television.- Chapter 10. New Approaches.- PART VI. In a Glass Darkly .- Chapter 11. Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple .- Chapter 12. Agatha Christie’s Poirot .- PART VII.Hidden Horizon .- Chapter 13. European Adaptations.- Chapter 14. Adaptations in the Rest of the World.- PART VIII. While theLight Lasts .- Chapter 15. Christie with a Twist.- Chapter 16. Looking to the Future.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Mark Aldridge is a senior lecturer in Film and Television at Southampton Solent University, UK, specialising in film and television history. Previous publications include The Birth of British Television , also published by Palgrave Macmillan. He has been a fan of Agatha Christie since he first saw Agatha Christie’s Poirot when he was seven.