Cover; Title Page; Contents; Dedication; Introduction; Filmography and Credits for Key Films; Part 1: Literary Contexts; An Enduringly Popular Novel; Part Two: From Text to Screen; Adaptations and Extrapolations Across the Media; Great Expectations on Television; Great Expectations (1934): A Hollywood Studio Romance; Great Expectations (1975): A Musical Sans Songs; Great Expectations (1998): From Estuary to Gulf, to Manhattan and Back; Great Expectations (1946): Something Like a Classic; Part Three: The Afterlife of Lean's Film; A Film of its Time -- and for other Times; Select Bibliography.

A close study of the relationship between text and film versions of Great Expectations. Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material tosupport their courses and essay writing on how the film versionsprovide different readings of the original text. Focussing on David Lean's film of Great Expectations, thebook discusses: the literary text in its historical context, key themesand dominant readings of the text, how the text is adapted for screenand how adaptations have changed our reading of the original text. There are numerous excerpts from the literary text, screenplays andsho.