Filming the Past, Screening the Present

Neo-Victorian Adaptations
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-3-86821-907-4
Verlag: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 347 g

Reihe: Studien zur anglistischen Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft

Neo-Victorianism – the study of creative engagements with Victorian literature and culture – is a burgeoning field in literary and cultural studies. Research on film and television adaptations, however, remains surprisingly rare in Neo-Victorian studies, and is more often to be found in adaptation studies.This international collection of essays explores questions of Neo-Victorian adaptation and globalization, gender and feminism as well as visual and material culture in Victorian and Neo-Victorian screen adaptations, using examples such as The Piano (1993), Affinity (2008), the BBC’s Sherlock (2010-17), Guy Ritchie’s Holmes movies, or Vanity Fair (2018). A cluster of chapters is devoted to an extended case study, the Neo-Victorian mashup series Penny Dreadful (2014-16). The volume also examines steampunk aesthetics in Wild Wild West (1999), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) or Victor Frankenstein (2015), the various filmic iterations of Dorian Gray, and recent transnational Hardy adaptations, shedding light on how adaptation reveals the nature of the persistent fascination with the Victorian period.


Contents

SHANNON WELLS-LASSAGNE AND ECKART VOIGTS
Neo-Victorian Adaptations – Introduction .......................................................... 1

Gender and Sexuality in Neo-Victorian Screen Narratives

ANDREA KIRCHKNOPF
Mary Morstan: A Cure to the Antifeminist Bias of the BBC Sherlock ? ........... 15

MICHELA IANNUCCI
Sarah Waters’ Affinity on Screen: Adapting the Neo-Victorian Queer .............. 31

ELA IPEK GÜNDÜZ
The Piano : a Neo-Victorian Specula(risa)tion ................................................... 41

Otherness: Other Victorians – Other Adaptations

ROBBIE MCALLISTER
Punking the Machine: Steampunk Hollywood
and the Adaptive Practices of a Grave-Robbing Genre ..................................... 55

JUAN-JOSÉ MARTÍN-GONZÁLEZ
Adapting Victorian Gypsies for the Screen:
Ethnicity, Otherness and Invisibility in Neo-Victorian Popular Film ................ 67

SHANNON WELLS-LASSAGNE
Picturing Dorian Gray: Portrait of an Adaptation .............................................. 81

MARGARIDA ESTEVES PEREIRA
Victorian Fiction on the Global Screen:
The Case of Michael Winterbottom’s Thomas Hardy ....................................... 95

RUXANDRA TRANDAFOIU AND CAROL POOLE
Metamodern Spaces of Production and Network Keeping
in Vanity Fair (ITV 2018) ............................................................................... 107

A Case Study – Neo-Victorian Mashup: Penny Dreadful

DIETMAR BÖHNKE
The ‘Grand Guignol’ Approach to Adapting the Victorians: Penny Dreadful
and the Multiple Adaptations of Globalised Popular Neo-Victorianism ......... 123

ANA CRISTINA MENDES
The Cumulative Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fandoms of Penny Dreadful ... 141

MATTHEW VANWINKLE
“Is the Language Not Rich with Felicity of Expression?”:
Penny Dreadful , Romantic Poetry, and the Limits of the Neo-Victorian ........ 155

SOPHIE MANTRANT
Jack the Ripper in the Age of Trauma:
Ethan Chandler in Penny Dreadful , Season One ............................................. 169

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wells-Lassagne, Shannon

Voigts, Eckart