Reading and Watching Jane Austen

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 6200536120 ISBN13: 9786200536129 Release Date: January 2020 Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Length: 196 Pages Weight: 0.65 lbs. Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0" The book proposes that diversification of cinematic rhetoric applied to transcoding Austen novels to film, and the heavy reliance on visual storytelling techniques offer a romanticized view of characters, reform them radically and allow physicality to seep into the story against a historically highly accurate backdrop. Thus, Austen adaptations become iconic texts not only due to the media they are transcoded into, but also due to the increasingly prevalent approach to these adaptations of showing rather than telling. Austen's first two novels and their adaptations illustrate these tendencies the best since they have yielded several adaptations in a row in the past years, following each other close enough to present the tendencies suggested. The study touch