BOOK CLUB: EMMA + Discussion
BOOK CLUB AT THE NFSA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CANBERRA WRITERS FESTIVAL
Sun
8
Sun 8 Dec 1:00 PM
Arc Cinema
Allocated Seating
125 Mins | Book Club at the NFSA
2020 | DCP | UK | D: Autumn de Wilde
Like the works of William Shakespeare, Jane Austen’s timeless novels are constantly studied, adapted and consumed afresh, by audiences of all ages.
Autumn de Wilde’s film adaptation is a playful contribution to the ever-growing Austen canon, starring Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit) and Josh O’Connor (The Crown) alongside comedic giants Bill Nighy and Miranda Hart. A joyous take on the much-loved classic, de Wilde’s Emma is a quippy romp of period frivolity that still delivers Austin’s sharp satire of Georgian high society.
‘Autumn de Wilde’s adaptation ramps up the comedy, but Anya Taylor-Joy remains wonderfully edgy as Jane Austen’s meddling heroine’ – The Guardian
The screening will be followed by a discussion of the film and the novel with special guest Dr Amelia Dale, moderated by author and editor Alice Grundy.
DR AMELIA DALE
Dr Amelia Dale is Lecturer in English at the Australian National University, where she teaches, among other subjects, the course "Jane Austen: History and Fiction." Her research centres on eighteenth-century and Romantic literature and culture, with particular interest in gender, genre and theories of literary character. Her book, The Printed Reader: Gender, Quixotism, and Textual Bodies in Eighteenth-Century Britain was short-listed for the British Association of Romanticism’s First Book Prize, and has been described by Eighteenth-Century Studies as “one of the best books I’ve ever read in the field.”
Like the works of William Shakespeare, Jane Austen’s timeless novels are constantly studied, adapted and consumed afresh, by audiences of all ages.
Autumn de Wilde’s film adaptation is a playful contribution to the ever-growing Austen canon, starring Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit) and Josh O’Connor (The Crown) alongside comedic giants Bill Nighy and Miranda Hart. A joyous take on the much-loved classic, de Wilde’s Emma is a quippy romp of period frivolity that still delivers Austin’s sharp satire of Georgian high society.
‘Autumn de Wilde’s adaptation ramps up the comedy, but Anya Taylor-Joy remains wonderfully edgy as Jane Austen’s meddling heroine’ – The Guardian
The screening will be followed by a discussion of the film and the novel with special guest Dr Amelia Dale, moderated by author and editor Alice Grundy.
DR AMELIA DALE
Dr Amelia Dale is Lecturer in English at the Australian National University, where she teaches, among other subjects, the course "Jane Austen: History and Fiction." Her research centres on eighteenth-century and Romantic literature and culture, with particular interest in gender, genre and theories of literary character. Her book, The Printed Reader: Gender, Quixotism, and Textual Bodies in Eighteenth-Century Britain was short-listed for the British Association of Romanticism’s First Book Prize, and has been described by Eighteenth-Century Studies as “one of the best books I’ve ever read in the field.”