The aim of the research is to find out how Emma Thompson's Film Adaptation of SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995, USA/UK) has handled the challenges of adaptation from page to screen. ... In the conclusion, the results will be criticized with the aim of providing directions for further research. 2. ... Such elements of mice en scene as objects, performers and sets can not only communicate meaning or mode but also help to reveal ideas and attitudes a film intends to express. ... The amount of light and its style express the theme and mood of a film. ... The way how the image is viewed, from ...

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"All's fair in love and war" said Francis Edward Smedley. Such could be the summarization of - according to critics - the greatest classic of our time, L.N. Tolstoy's War and Peace. Themes of dedication to one's homeland, war strategies, fate, bravery, rebirth, religion and love are po...

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The relationships between women have evolved throughout the ages possibly as a result of the transformations of society as these texts explore; The Shakespearean era where only men were allowed to act, the Victorian era in which everything must be prim and proper and women should still do their work as a mother and wife to the Post Modern era in which women are free to express themselves in the same way that men are. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the mid-1980s, just as the new historicists, with their invocation of "the historicity of texts and the textuality of history," were transforming the way readers understood the English Renaissance, Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose became both a critical success and a bestseller. (1983...

• Word Count: 4697
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate