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- ↑ Robert Mayer, "Is There a Text in the Screening Room?" Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen (2002), p. 1.
- ↑ Andrew Higson, "Re-Presenting the National Past: Nostalgia and Pastiche in the Heritage Film," Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism, ed. Lester Friedman (Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 1993), p. 115.
- ↑ Christopher Orr, "The Discourse on Adaptation," Wide Angle 6 (1984), p. 73.
- ↑ Francisco Lara Polop, IMDb.com