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A 6 page paper which examines how a novel first published in 1811 was successfully adapted for contemporary film audiences. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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are dated, the romantic qualities of Austens characters remain both endearing as well as timeless. As Professor Sue Parrill noted in her text, Jane Austen on Film and Television:
A Critical Study of the Adaptations, evidence of Austens enduring popularity can be found in the nearly 30 film and screen adaptations of her works. But transferring a nineteenth
century novel from the printed page onto the big screen in a way that will satisfy contemporary audiences "poses numerous creative challenges, all of which resound with interpretive consequences" (Duncan
2). When the seemingly unlikely duo of Taiwanese director Ang Lee and actress and first-time screenwriter Emma Thompson teamed for a film adaptation of Austens first novel, Sense and
Sensibility, there were challenges aplenty, as Rebecca Stephens Duncan noted in her article, "Sense and Sensibility: A Convergence of Readers/Viewers/Browsers," when she observed, "In a comedy of manners such
as Sense and Sensibility, dialogue also conveys the substance of distant and subtle action. In the absence of a voice-over, speech must also compensate for the loss of the
strong, often ironic narrative voice that characterizes Austens fiction and enables a multileveled reading of the printed text" (2). For those who are unfamiliar with the novels premise, it
concerns the Dashwood family (a mother and her three young daughters) who have been left virtually homeless as a result of Henry Dashwoods death and the legal practice of primogeniture,
which dictated that the Dashwood estate be inherited by John Dashwood, the eldest son from a previous marriage and his wife, Fanny. This meant that Mrs. Dashwood and her
daughters Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret, would be stripped not only of land but also with the social position that land represented. This, as depicted in the novel, would not
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