Deborah YaffeSep 21, 2017The factory at workThe Jane Austen adaptation factory never seems to stop churning out fresh material. By now, the proliferating combinations and...
Deborah YaffeJun 8, 2017Brokeback PemberleyIn my experience, non-Janeites are blissfully unaware of the vast universe of Austen fanfic in all its magnificent, explicit, pansexual...
Deborah YaffeMay 4, 2017Jane Austen meets Texas debsThe year advances apace, and yet there still doesn’t seem to be a release date for the supposed-to-come-out-in-2017 film adaptation of...
Deborah YaffeFeb 13, 2017Dweeby DarcyEdward IV, who reigned as king of England for most of the period from 1461-1483, was described by contemporaries as an unusually handsome...
Deborah YaffeJun 2, 2016Who you callin' unpublished?So I’ve finally seen Whit Stillman’s Love and Friendship, the much-heralded film adaptation of Lady Susan. (I enjoyed it, if perhaps not...
Deborah YaffeMay 23, 2016Lining up for ticketsSince its initial release two weeks ago, Love and Friendship, Whit Stillman’s new film adaptation of Austen’s Lady Susan, has been...
Deborah YaffeMay 12, 2016Finishing the already finishedExcited as I am to see Love and Friendship, Whit Stillman’s new film adaptation of Lady Susan, I’ve been more than a little skeptical of...
Deborah YaffeMay 5, 2016Sanditon: Adapting Austen and DobbsRegular blog readers know that I’m squeeing with excitement over the upcoming film adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left...
Deborah YaffeApr 7, 2016Sanditon on screenMore casting news for what seems to be a for-real, actually-going-to-happen film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sanditon: Two young,...
Deborah YaffeMar 28, 2016The end of a dry spell?We fans of Jane Austen movie adaptations have had kind of a dry spell for the last few years. We’ve watched poor Sally Hawkins gallop...
Deborah YaffeFeb 29, 2016The Austen Catch-Up Project: As If!I love Clueless. Doesn’t everyone? Last summer marked the twentieth anniversary of the film’s release, and the milestone inspired a slew...
Deborah YaffeFeb 11, 2016Party like it's 1995You remember 1995, right? The beginning of that halcyon eighteen-month stretch during which six Jane Austen film adaptations, ranging in...