Book DescriptionTelevision and movies, not libraries or scholarship, have made Charles Dickens the most important unread novelist in English In addition to the millions of people already deploying the word "Dickensian" to describe their own and others'lives, many more who have never read Dickens are familiar with the term They know оздщч of him because they have access to over a century of adaptations of his works for movies and television Including an exhaustive filmography, this work will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars Download DescriptionTelevision and film, not libraries or scholarship, have made Charles Dickens the most important unread novelist in English It is not merely that millions of people feel comfortable deploying the word 'Dickensian' to describe their own and others' lives, but that many more people who have never read Dickens know what Dickensian means They know about Dickens because they have access to over a century of adaptations for the big and small screen Because Dickens has proven to be the most easily adapted of major novelists, he has become, somewhat ironically, one of the foremost novelists in the English canon This is ironic because it was just this capacity to entertain that once confined him to the margins of the 'great tradition' in fiction Dickens on Screen is an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike It provides an exhaustive filmography and is well illustrated.  Патефон Дружба2003 г 238 стр ISBN 0521001242.