![]() Highly finished and pleasantly handleable as books in their own right, they gesture accommodatingly to both words and worlds beyond. In method as in subject matter, these guides move freely on the interface between print culture and multimedia. An important feature is the fully referenced bibliographies, including reviews and copious website addresses - the latter ranging from fanzines and authors' and publishers' own sites to academic discussion lists and online journals. ![]() Given the space, there are remarkably balanced film/novel comparisons of the most well-known examples. The books are invaluable for gathering out-of-the-way or ephemeral comment from TV and radio interviews and the web as well as from literary reviews. And at best it goes a fair way towards reshuffling those categories and redrawing the boundaries. ![]() "The series comes as near to squaring various circles - popular / academic, 'good read' / 'classic Lit', novel / film of the book as any I know. ![]()
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