Biography - Jane Austen
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Artist: Jane AustenBrand: A&E
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 50 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
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- In six extraordinary works, she cast her ironic but ultimately sympathetic eye on the life of privilege in Georgian England. But her work was not appreciated until well after her lifetime. Jane Austen's books have been in print continuously for over two centuries. They have been made into movies sometimes several times in a single year. Her wit and wisdom remain undimmed, though the world s
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Movie Review: Jane Austen's Enduring Appeal
Summary: 5 Stars
A&E's Jane Austen Biography (2004) is a lively, informative, and interesting documentary on the extremely popular British novelist whose work continues to attract readers and film viewers. I could never imagine that such an engaging documentary could be produced on an author with very few surviving images and rather elusive biographical details. The documentary relies largely on a variety of period images, clips from films based on Jane Austen novels, dramatization of moments from Austen's life, and a number of interviews with academics, readers and writers who have studied Austen's work and life. What I find to be especially successful is the way the documentary thematizes and accounts for the lasting influence of Austen's work and its appeal for contemporary audiences. An impressive feature is the footage that acts as evidence of the British novelist's enduring, global appeal and diverse contemporary influence. Azar Nafisi talks about the feminist politics of reading Pride and Prejudice in Iran, Suzan Reed's English students in a Connecticut school in the United States are keenly involved in Austen and her work, and the director Gurinder Chadha talks about filming an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice for Bollywood.
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