@article{ART001850881},
author={CHOE JIAN},
title={The Film Adaptation of An Education - A Representation of British Society of the 1960s -},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2014},
volume={71},
number={1},
pages={317-343},
doi={10.17326/jhsnu.71.1.201402.317}
TY - JOUR
AU - CHOE JIAN
TI - The Film Adaptation of An Education - A Representation of British Society of the 1960s -
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2014
VL - 71
IS - 1
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 317
EP - 343
SN - 1598-3021
AB - An Education, Lynn Barber’s critically acclaimed memoir of 2009,stands in the continuum of Bildungsroman. Set in London of 1961, it isconcerned with a schoolgirl’s affair with an older duplicitous suitor, whichleads her to a severe sense of disillusionment. This coming-of-age storyhas been brought onto screen by Lone Scherfig. A BBC Films product,adroitly scripted by Nick Hornby, the film extends Barber’s personal accountinto a heritage piece which explores a wider trend of the memoir’ssetting or London of the 1960s. The era itself is the main subject of thefilm, which brilliantly captures the socio-cultural cachet of the SwingingSixties, the quintessential decade of political idealism and counter-culturemovement. The main character Jenny, a larger-than-life figure, emblematizesthe sixties’ ethos. As a borderline character who embodies suchcontradictory qualities as aspiration/apprehension, naïveté/knowingness andvulnerability/strength, she evokes the world in the liminal state shiftingfrom the bleak postwar fifties to the highly charged utopian sixties. In this manner, the original text has been recreated into a defining film on theearly 1960s with its period feel braced by superb costume, music and productiondesign.
KW - Lynn Barber;An Education;literature and film;adaptation;London;the 1960s
DO - 10.17326/jhsnu.71.1.201402.317
ER -
CHOE JIAN. (2014). The Film Adaptation of An Education - A Representation of British Society of the 1960s -. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 71(1), 317-343.
CHOE JIAN. 2014, "The Film Adaptation of An Education - A Representation of British Society of the 1960s -", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.71, no.1 pp.317-343. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.71.1.201402.317
CHOE JIAN "The Film Adaptation of An Education - A Representation of British Society of the 1960s -" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 71.1 pp.317-343 (2014) : 317.
CHOE JIAN. The Film Adaptation of An Education - A Representation of British Society of the 1960s -. 2014; 71(1), 317-343. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.71.1.201402.317
CHOE JIAN. "The Film Adaptation of An Education - A Representation of British Society of the 1960s -" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 71, no.1 (2014) : 317-343.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.71.1.201402.317
CHOE JIAN. The Film Adaptation of An Education - A Representation of British Society of the 1960s -. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 71(1), 317-343. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.71.1.201402.317
CHOE JIAN. The Film Adaptation of An Education - A Representation of British Society of the 1960s -. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2014; 71(1) 317-343. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.71.1.201402.317
CHOE JIAN. The Film Adaptation of An Education - A Representation of British Society of the 1960s -. 2014; 71(1), 317-343. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.71.1.201402.317
CHOE JIAN. "The Film Adaptation of An Education - A Representation of British Society of the 1960s -" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 71, no.1 (2014) : 317-343.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.71.1.201402.317
