Pucci / Thompson Jane Austen and Co.

Remaking the Past in Contemporary Culture
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8738-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 283 Seiten

Examines recent Austen remakes as well as other “post-heritage” films and television shows to show how the past is reshaped for a contemporary market.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pucci, Suzanne R.

Thompson, James

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Jane Austen Phenomenon: Remaking the Past at the Millennium
Suzanne R. Pucci and James Thompson
Part I. In the Classroom
1. How to Do Things with Austen
James Thompson
2. Popular Culture and the Comedy of Manners: Clueless and Fashion Clues

Maureen Turim
3. Love at the Hellmouth: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Kristina Straub
Part II. In the Nation
4. Clueless: About History
Deidre Lynch
5. "It Can't Go on Like This": Dangerous Liaisons in the Reagan-Thatcher Years
Sarah Maza
6. Placing Jane Austen, Displacing England: Touring between Book, History, and Nation
Mike Crang
Part III. At Home
7. The Return Home
Suzanne R. Pucci
8. The Return to Repression: Filming the Nineteenth Century

Virginia L. Blum
9. A Generational Gig with Jane Austen, Sigmund Freud, and Amy Heckerling: Fantasies of Sexuality, Gender, Fashion, and Disco in and beyond Clueless
Denise Fulbrook Part IV. In the Bedroom
10. Sleeping with Mr. Collins
Ruth Perry
11. Books to Movies: Gender and Desire in Jane Austen's Adaptations
Martine Voiret
12. Gender and the Heritage Genre: Popular Feminism Turns to History
Madeleine Dobie
Appendix: Television, Film, and Radio Productions of Austen
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Suzanne R. Pucci is Associate Professor of French at the University of Kentucky. James Thompson is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.