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In:Where is Adaptation?: Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts
Edited by Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 9] 2018
► pp. 87–102

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Chapter 5
The post-nostalgia film

Adapting West Yorkshire in British heritage and social realist film

Published online: 16 October 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.9.06bro
Article outline
  • A theory of adaptation: Place as text
  • Of moors and mansions: The British heritage film industry
  • The spaces of British social realism
  • Notes
  • References
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