Cobb, Shelley.

Adaptation, authorship, and contemporary women filmmakers / Shelley Cobb, University of Southampton, UK. - vi, 167 pages

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-161) and index.

A lively discussion of costume dramas to women's films, Shelley Cobb investigates the practice of adaptation in contemporary films made by women. The figure of the woman author comes to the fore as a key site for the representation of women's agency and the authority of the woman filmmaker.




Electronic reproduction.
Askews and Holts.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.

9781137315878 (ebook)


Film adaptations--History and criticism.
Literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Women motion picture producers and directors.
Motion pictures and literature.
Performing Arts
Films, cinema
Films, cinema
Film history, theory & criticism
Individual film directors, film-makers
Biography, literature & literary studies
Media studies
Gender studies, gender groups
Gender studies: women & girls
Performing arts
Literature: history & criticism