Jane Austen on Screen — Overlapping Dialogues, Different Takes

Abstract This article examines some of the recent essay collections devoted to cinematic and televisual adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels, locating them within the ‘ Austen on Screen ’ disci-pline. It argues that the area would benefi t from more interdisciplinary scholarship as exemplifi ed in one of the particular collections under review. For this reason, the reviewing of the texts is not done in chronological order, so that the benefi ts of an interdisciplinary approach — and perhaps the diffi culties created by a narrow, over-literary approach to Austen adaptations — can be appreciated