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Writing and Misleading on Screen: Atonement (Ian McEwan/Joe Wright)
2008
How does the film adaptation of Atonement by Joe Wright find original ways to adapt what lies at the core of the novel by Ian McEwan—the ins and outs of writing? The film endeavours to transfer, cinematically or not, the metafictional and definitely postmodern dimensions in McEwan's story. Wright first works on point of view, sticking to young Briony's in the first part and elaborating on her re-vision and revisiting of events the meaning of which she thinks she can grasp. But seeing is constantly equated with writing in the novel, and Wright's film convincingly plays around this equation. “Writing on screen” it does indeed, either thematically—with the definitions and aims of writing accor…
Books and Letters in Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice (2005): Anticipating the Spectator's Response through the Thematization of Film Adaptation
2007
International audience; About Books and letters in Pride & Prejudice.