Deborah YaffeAug 7P&P BarbieThe summer’s biggest movie, Greta Gerwig’s delightful and touching Barbie, knows women well—really, really well. The proof? Mr. Darcy...
Deborah YaffeFeb 16Speaking well enough to be unintelligibleA few weeks ago, the British press was suddenly awash in articles (for example, here, here and here) about the new! exciting! previously...
Deborah YaffeJul 7, 2019Oh, those clothes. . The success of the screen adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels has been attributed to many factors: romantic plots, attractive stars,...
Deborah YaffeFeb 25, 2019BewitchedAmong Janeites, the 2005 film of Pride and Prejudice is . . . controversial. Purists, especially those old enough to have seen an...
Deborah YaffeMay 6, 2015Mr. Darcy's six-packThe British actor Matthew Macfadyen – whom many Janeites remember fondly as Darcy in the 2005 feature-film version of Pride and Prejudice...
