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Beautiful Men in Screwball Comedies

May 10, 2017

Screwball comedy, a genre invented during the Depression, often features a madcap woman (think Claudette Colbert, Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck) embroiling …

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Jane Eyre on Page and Screen 11: Aunt Reed’s Deathbed

July 13, 2016

In our survey of Jane Eyre adaptations, we have come to a point where the films diverge widely. Feature-length films, …

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Jane Eyre on Page and Screen 7: The Fire Scene

May 11, 2016

The Fire Scene is a turning point in Jane Eyre. It is the first time Mr. Rochester calls our heroine “Jane” …

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Jane Eyre on Page and Screen 6: Conversations With Rochester

April 27, 2016

Last time we looked at Mr. Rochester in the drawing room; today we meet Rochester in the dining room. Soon we …

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Jane Eyre on Page and Screen 5: Rochester Interviews Jane

April 13, 2016

For many readers, the most absorbing chapters of Jane Eyre are XIII, XIV and XV, each of which contains a …

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Jane Eyre on Page and Screen 4: The Master of Thornfield

March 30, 2016

We have now reached what may be the most extraordinary chapter in Jane Eyre. Not because it contains Jane’s first meeting with Mr. …

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Jane Eyre on Page and Screen 3: Jane Arrives at Thornfield

March 16, 2016

Janeites, I know you’re getting impatient for Mr. Rochester. I fear he is off on one of his interminable travels, and …

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Jane Eyre on Page and Screen 2: Young Jane

March 2, 2016

Everyone knows about the “Janeites,” the Jane Austen fandom. But there is also another type of Janeite, those who love …

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The Life of Stuff (1997)

December 2, 2015

Imagine the grotesquerie, weird excess and dark comedy of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast taking place in an abandoned nightclub in 1990’s Glasgow. Instead …

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Masculinity in “The Godfather”

October 7, 2015

Why do men adore The Godfather, the 1972 film by Francis Ford Coppola? Is it because the film depicts a bygone world …

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