- Jane Austen in popular culture
The works of Jane Austen have been represented in popular culture in a variety of forms.
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 –18 July 1817 ) was anEnglish novel ist whose works include "Sense and Sensibility ", "Pride and Prejudice ", "Mansfield Park", "Emma ", "Northanger Abbey ", and "Persuasion". Her social commentary and masterful use of bothfree indirect speech andirony eventually made Austen one of the most influential and honoured novelists inEnglish literature .Filmography
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popular culture , Austen's novels have been adapted in a number offilm andtelevision series, varying greatly in their faithfulness to the originals.Pride and Prejudice
Film
* "Pride and Prejudice (1940 film) ", starringGreer Garson as Elizabeth Bennet andLaurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy.
* "" (2003), a modern-day independent film adaptation.
* "Pride & Prejudice (2005 film) ", starringKeira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet andMatthew Macfadyen as Mr. Darcy.Television
* "Pride and Prejudice (1952 TV serial) ", starringAnn Baskett as Elizabeth Bennet andPeter Cushing as Mr. Darcy.
* "Pride and Prejudice (1980 TV serial) " (1980), BBC miniseries starringElizabeth Garvie as Elizabeth Bennet andDavid Rintoul as Mr. Darcy.
* "Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV serial) ", 1995 BBC miniseries starringJennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet andColin Firth as Mr. Darcy.Adaptations
* "Bridget Jones's Diary" (2001), a loose adaptation byHelen Fielding based on her book of the same name. The movie starsRenée Zellweger in the Elizabeth Bennet-inspired role of Bridget;Colin Firth , literally as Mr. (Mark) Darcy; andHugh Grant as the Wickham-inspired Daniel. The 1995 TV serial is specifically referenced in the book and subsequent movie, intentionally naming Mr. Darcy after the Pride and Prejudice character.
* "Bride & Prejudice "(2004), aBollywood style adaptation directed byGurinder Chadha and starringAishwarya Rai andMartin Henderson .See also
List of artistic depictions of and related to Pride and Prejudice .Emma
Film
* "Emma (1948 film) ", starringJudy Campbell as Emma.
* "Emma (1996 film) ", 1996 film directed by Douglas MacGrath and starringGwyneth Paltrow as Emma andJeremy Northam as Knightley.Television
* "Emma (1960 TV serial) ", starringDiana Fairfax as Emma.
* "Emma (1972 TV serial) ", 1972 UK TV film starringDoran Godwin as Emma.
* "Emma (1996 TV drama) ", 1996 UK TV film starringKate Beckinsale as Emma.Adaptation
* "Clueless (1995 film)", a modernization of the novel set in a Beverly Hills high school. The film was directed byAmy Heckerling and starsAlicia Silverstone .
*"Clueless (TV series) " was based on the 1995 film.ense and Sensibility
Film
* "Sense and Sensibility (film) ", film starringEmma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood,Kate Winslet as Marianne Dashwood, withHugh Grant as Edward Ferrars andAlan Rickman as Colonel Brandon. Directed byAng Lee .Television
* "Sense and Sensibility (1971 TV serial) ", BBC series starringJoanna David as Elinor Dashwood andCiaran Madden as Marianne Dashwood
* "Sense and Sensibility (1981 TV serial) ", BBC series starringIrene Richard as Elinor Dashwood andTracey Childs as Marianne Dashwood
* "Sense and Sensibility (2008 TV serial) ", BBC series starring asHattie Morahan as Elinor Dashwood andCharity Wakefield as Marianne DashwoodAdaptation
* "Kandukondain Kandukondain " (2000), a contemporaryKollywood (Tamil) film set in the present, based on the same plot, starring Tabu as Sowmya (Elinor Dashwood),Aishwarya Rai as Meenakshi (Marianne Dashwood), withAjit as Manohar (Edward Ferrars), Abbas as Srikanth (Willoughby) andMammootty as Captain Bala (Colonel Brandon).Persuasion
Film
* "Persuasion (1995 film) ", made-for-television film which was released in US theatres by Sony Pictures Classics, starringAmanda Root as Anne andCiarán Hinds as Captain Wentworth.Television
* "Persuasion (1960 series) ", BBC miniseries starringDaphne Slater as Anne andPaul Daneman as Captain Wentworth.
* "Persuasion (1971 series) ", BBC miniseries starringAnne Firbank as Anne andBryan Marshall as Captain Wentworth.
* "Persuasion (2007 TV drama) ", miniseries filmed in Bath in September 2006 forITV , withSally Hawkins as Anne,Rupert Penry-Jones as Wentworth, andAnthony Stewart Head as Sir Walter Elliot, andJulia Davis .Mansfield Park
Film
* "Mansfield Park (film) " 1999 film directed by the Canadian Patricia Rozema, and starring Frances O'Connor, Embeth Davidtz, Sheila Gish and Harold Pinter.Television
* "Mansfield Park (1983 TV serial) " miniseries starringSylvestra Le Touzel ,Nicholas Farrell , andAnna Massey
* "Mansfield Park (2007 TV drama) ", miniseries directed by Iain B. MacDonald. With Billie Piper as FannyAdaptation
* "Metropolitan (1990 film)" a loose adaptation set in modern dayManhattan andLong Island . Written and directed by Whit Stillman, and starringEdward Clements ,Carolyn Farina ,Taylor Nichols , andChris Eigeman (Jane Austen is also mentioned throughout the film.)Northanger Abbey
Film
* "Northanger Abbey (1986 film) ", directed byGiles Foster and released in 1986, starring Peter Firth in the role of Henry Tilney.Television
* "Northanger Abbey (2007 TV drama) ", directed byJon Jones and released in 2007, starring Felicity Jones as Catherine Morland and JJ Fields as Henry Tilney.Non-book based
*The 1980 film "
Jane Austen in Manhattan " is about rival stage companies who wish to produce the only complete Austen play "Sir Charles Grandison" (from the Richardson novel of the same title), which was rediscovered in 1980. [BBC News. 2004. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/dorset/3560029.stm Rare Austen manuscript unveiled] ]*A semi-biographical 2007 film "
Becoming Jane ", was directed byJulian Jarrold and stars Anne Hathaway as Austen. The film centers around her purported romance with youngTom Lefroy , played byJames McAvoy . It is very loosely based on brief mentions of him in two of her letters to her only sister Cassandra.*Another 2007 semi-biographical film, this one produced by the BBC for television, "
Miss Austen Regrets ". It focuses on the last few years of Austen's life, in which she looks back on her life and loves. Jane Austen is played byOlivia Williams .*The 2007 film "
The Jane Austen Book Club " is about a group of people who form a Jane Austen discussion group. Much of the dialogue concerns her novels and her personal life.*In the radio sitcom "
Old Harry's Game ", Jane Austen is a minor recurring character who is inHell . In it, Austen is discovered to have been incredibly violent, rude and foul-mouthed personally. As a result, she is one of the few people in Hell that Satan is frightened of and whom other sinners such as Hitler look up to.Plays and Musicals
* [http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=12018 Pride and Prejudice (1935)] dramatized by Helen Jerome
* "
First Impressions " (1959), a Broadway musical adaptation of Pride and Prejudice
* "JANE, the musical" debuted in June 2006 in the West Midlands, UK. It is a West-end style musical theatre production based on the life of Jane Austen. The musical, directed by Geetika Lizardi, focuses on Austen as a modern heroine, a woman who chose art and integrity over the security of a loveless marriage.
* [http://www.emmathemusical.com/ Emma, A New Musical (2007)] based on the novel "Emma"
* [http://josiebrown.blogs.com/rita_abrams_josie_browns_/ Pride and Prejudice, The Musical (2007)] . Music and Lyrics by Rita Abrams. Book by Josie Brown.Bibliography
*Macdonald, Gina and Andrew Macdonald, eds. "Jane Austen on Screen". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 0521793254.
*Pucci, Suzanne Rodin and James Thompson, eds. "Jane Austen and Co.: Remaking the Past in Contemporary Culture". Buffalo: State University of New York Press, 2003. ISBN 0791456153.
*Troost, Linda and Sayre Greenfield, eds. "Jane Austen in Hollywood". 2nd ed. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. ISBN 0813190061.Notes
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