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Title: Framing and Reframing the Ladies

Framing and Reframing the Ladies

Viewing Attitudes in "The Portrait of a Lady" and Its Cinematic Counterpart

by Heike Fahrenberg (Author)
©2010 Thesis 344 Pages
English Studies
Series: Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik, Volume 54

Summary

Striving to leave fidelity-criticism behind, this comparative analysis treats Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady and its cinematic counterpart by Jane Campion as complementary versions of Isabel’s story. The graphic integration of stills functioning as visual evidence emphasizes the dialogic quality of this comparison based on non-essentialist feminist and post-structuralist principles. Mainly focusing on literary and visual strategies employed by both media to represent wo/men on page and screen, this analysis shows how those strategies result in a non-affirmative realism preventing both novel and movie from killing their ‘ladies’ into art.

Details

Pages
344
Year
2010
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631567050
Language
English
Keywords
Darstellung der Frau Geschlechterrollen Gender
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2010. 344 pp., num. fig.

Biographical notes

Heike Fahrenberg (Author)

The Author: Heike Andrea Fahrenberg, Associate Professor at Middlebury College, Vermont (USA); 1990 completion of vocational training as laboratory assistant (Biology); 1997 M.A. in German, American, and English Studies at the University of Mainz; 1998 Teachers’ State Exam (Staatsexamen) in German and English at the University of Mainz; 1994/1995 student stipend at Middlebury College, VT (USA) combined with assignment as German teaching assistant; 1998/1999 lecturer at the University of California at Davis (USA), English Department; 1999/2000 instructor at the University of Mainz, American Studies Department; since 2000 Director of the C.V. Starr-Middlebury School in Germany; 2006 Dr. phil. in American Studies at the University of Mainz.

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