.... The chapter concludes with an analysis of A Christmas Carol, the text that has done most to establish the image of an uncommercial, heritage Dickens: that it has done so, despite its complex relationship to commodity culture and the riches it has generated through the ages, captures...

...The use of performance capture in two 3D films by Robert Zemeckis, Beowulf (2007) and A Christmas Carol (2009), is evaluated and its effectiveness in digital 3D cinema. Box office results and the artistic nature of Zemeckis’s work and its suitability for 3D...

...This section serves as a general introduction to the approach the author will take in his analysis of the 1951 film Scrooge, one informed by his own autobiography. Scrooge Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol I think any horror film fan can agree that for an undertaking...

...This chapter serves as a survey of the multiple screen versions of A Christmas Carol and the depiction of Scrooge, with a particular emphasis on how the supernatural is represented. Scrooge Charles Dickens MR James Alastair Sim Ghosts The supernatural A Christmas Carol Personal connection...

...This chapter considers the reputation of the film Scrooge, and that of its source material, A Christmas Carol, as being fundamentally optimistic with the actuality of the narrative, which the author contends is bleak and nightmarish, especially so as depicted in the 1951 film. He emphasises...

...’ such as bedrooms. Scrooge Brian Desmond Hurst Ghosts A Christmas Carol Alastair Sim Noel Langley Michael Hordern Prior to emitting his scream, and throwing himself out of his chair—into an upright, defensive posture—Scrooge listens to the sound of Jacob Marley’s ghost dragging his chains over...

...This chapter continues the detailed chronological textual analysis of Scrooge. It concentrates on the contributions to Scrooge by director Brian Desmond Hurst, screenwriter Noel Langley and composer Richard Addinsell. Scrooge Brian Desmond Hurst Ghosts A Christmas Carol Alastair Sim Richard...

... is thriving in cultural texts as varied as A Christmas Carol to the television series Sleepy Hollow, and these representations are similar to medieval representations of purgatory where souls do their penance on earth while remaining largely invisible to the living...

... Jack Beeson and Henry Mollicone) and translations (of Ravel, Bizet, and Lehár). His activities in the musical theater since the 1970s include writing lyrics with Richard Rodgers (Rex), book and lyrics with Michel Legrand (A Christmas Carol) and Joe Raposo...

...Finding scant mention of the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) death, this chapter creates an argument for why this death is vital to understanding CLS. Drawing from Jacques Derrida’s hauntology, Francis Fukuyama’s end of history, Hamlet, and A Christmas Carol, a way to conceptualise the death of CLS...

...This Devil’s Advocate explores the cinematic wonders of Brian Desmond Hurst’s much loved 1951 adaptation of A Christmas Carol, Scrooge, through the prism of horror cinema, arguing that the film has less in common with cosy festive tradition than it does with terror...

...This chapter provides readings of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and Bleak House that responds to a critical tradition which sees philanthropy as a failed effort to transform the system, ultimately acting in concert with supervisory institutions...

... The Dragon Seed de Cordoba Pedro Barrymore John Christmas Carol A radio series Carey Harry Christmas Carol A film Owen Reginald Mayor of the Town Hallmark Hall of Fame A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge radio drama Frank Capra It’s a Wonderful Life diana barrymore: “What do you do...

... House Dickens Charles Eliot T S Forster John Gride Arthur in Nicholas Nickleby Hard Times humour M’Choakumchild Mr in Hard Times memory names and naming Nell Little in The Old Curiosity Shop Nicholas Nickleby psychological insight satire Scrooge Ebenezer in A Christmas Carol Squeers...

..., as their spirits overflow into the conduits of communal affect. Boz Christmas ‘Christmas Festivities’ in Sketches by Boz contradictions duality energy James Henry Christmas Carol A Dickens Charles Pickwick Papers The Pickwick Samuel in The Pickwick Papers railway children and childhood Christmas Books...

...This chapter continues the detailed chronological textual analysis of Scrooge. It particularly remarks on the musical score and the visual echoes of German Expressionist cinema. Scrooge Brian Desmond Hurst Charles Dickens Ghosts Horror films A Christmas Carol German Expressionism Universal...

...This chapter continues the detailed chronological textual analysis of Scrooge. It particularly remarks on the performance of Alastair Sim in the title role as well as his career. Scrooge Brian Desmond Hurst Charles Dickens Ghosts A Christmas Carol Alastair Sim Noel Langley It’s a Wonderful...

..., and a recognition of the need to share that prosperity with those for whom industrialisation and urbanisation had not been an unqualified success. Father Christmas/Santa Claus does not feature in the key ideological text of the new invention, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The enormous...

...This chapter summarises Charles Dickens's view of the ghost story. It presents some close readings of A Christmas Carol, ‘The Signalman’ and ‘A December Vision’. In A Christmas Carol, Dickens uses ghosts to critique the economic system and to pardon capitalism...

... of Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843) and Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946), each of which offers the audience a warm, inviting, Christmassy façade that artfully overshadows the darker, more pessimistic implications at its core. Capra Frank Christmas Christmas Carol...