Mansfield Park, the novel, or Mansfield Park the film?

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English

 

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Raymond S

 

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November 22, 2014

 

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Andrew Wright says that many adaptations of Austen's work are made to ?entice the demi-literate or those of presumably short attention span.' This is the criticism that faced director Patricia Rozema with her film version of Mansfield Park, which states the very start that the film is only loosely based on the film, but also draws inspiration from the early journals and letters of Jane Austen...
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There are two schools of thought on the adaptation of Jane Austen's novels, whether they are beneficial or not. It is clear that Rozema's version of the film makes it more accessible to viewers. M. Casey Diana has experimented on Austen adaptations with her class group: ?She divided her students into two groups; one read Sense and Sensibility first and then saw the Thompson/Lee film, the other saw the movie first and then read the book?the first group had a hard time comprehending (never mind responding on any deeply imaginative level to it), and both groups used the movie as a "gateway" into the book or an explanation afterwards...
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