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In this programme Arnold Kettle makes general points about simplification, changes in the order of events, and compression, using examples from Dickens' 'Great Expectations' and 'Cousin Bette' by B...alzac. He emphasises that a dramatisation however successful in its own terms, is never true to the novel.
In this programme Arnold Kettle makes general points about simplification, changes in the order of events, and compression, using examples from Dickens' 'Great Expectations' and 'Cousin Bette' by B...alzac. He emphasises that a dramatisation however successful in its own terms, is never true to the novel.
| Module code and title: | A302, The nineteenth century novel and its legacy |
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| Item code: | A302; 05 |
| First transmission date: | 21-03-1973 |
| Published: | 1973 |
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| Duration: | 00:23:53 |
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| Producer: | Alasdair Clayre |
| Contributor: | Arnold Kettle |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Balzac; Cousin Bette; Great Expectations |
| Footage description: | Opening sequence of first episode of the serialised version of 'Great Expectations' is shown. Arnold Kettle examines the sequence shown and indicates its strengths and weaknesses, what is inevitably missed from the novel. Arnold Kettle discusses the nature of adaptation from one medium to the other and the difficulties. Opening sequence of the serialised version of 'Cousin Bette'. Arnold Kettle introduces it. Arnold Kettle examines the television sequence and compares it with the novel. He suggests in what way and to what degree the adaptation is successful. Arnold Kettle again discusses the nature and peculiar dilIiculties of adaptation and comments briefly on Balzac. He introduces the final scenes of the television version of 'Cousin Bette'. Closing scenes ol the television adaptation are shown. Arnold Kettle compares the adaptations ending with that of the novel. Reasons for the changes are advanced, Arnold Kettle then sums up his generalizations on the literary adaptation. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/70952 |
| Production number: | 00525_3005 |
| Videofinder number: | 2580 |
| Available to public: | no |
