Jane Austen in Hollywood

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Watching Ourselves Watching 1 Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield lOut of the Drawing Room, Onto the Lawn 13 Rachel M. Brownstein 2 Balancing the Courtship Hero: Masculine Emotional Display in Film Adaptations of Austen's Novels 22 Cheryl L. Nixon 3 Misrepresenting Jane Austen's Ladies: Revising Texts (and History) to Sell Films 44 Rebecca Dickson 4 Austen, Class, and the American Market 58 Carol M. Dole 5 Jane Austen, Film, and the Pitfalls of Postmodem Nostalgia 79 Amanda Collins 6 "A Correct Taste in Landscape": Pemberley as Fetish and Commodity 90 H. Elisabeth Ellington 7 Mr. Darcy's Body: Privileging the Female Gaze III Lisa Hopkins 8 Emma Becomes Clueless 122 Suzanne Ferriss 9 "As If!": Translating Austen's Ironic Narrator to Film 130 Nora Nachumi 10 Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility as Gateway to Austen's Novel 140 M. Casey Diana 11 "Piracy Is Our Only Option": Postfeminist Intervention in Sense and Sensibility 148 Kristin Flieger Samuelian 12 Feminist Implications of the Silver Screen Austen 159 Devoney Looser 13 Mass Marketing Jane Austen: Men, Women, and Courtship in Two Film Adaptations 177 Deborah Kaplan 14 The Mouse that Roared: Patricia Rozema's Mansfield Park 188 Linda Troost and Sayre Greerifield Appendix. Austen Adaptations Available on Video 205 Selected Reviews, Articles, and Books on the Recent Films, 1995-2000 208 Contributors 213 Index 215 Illustrations follow page 128 ...