| Cranky Austenfan Post | [Jun. 5th, 2009|04:58 pm] |
I find it interesting that while the Editrix says that the discussion (in Jane's Fame) of modern Austen fandom is "shallow and imperceptive", she doesn't give any examples or explanations. Also, there's this:
While the media likes to portray Janeites as a homogeneous group of tea-sipping, cat-stroking, bonnet-wearing, rather silly ladies of a Certain Age who swoon as one the words “wet shirt” and pay little attention to the Serious Themes of Jane Austen’s novels ...
I'm pretty sure that part of the reason (aside from simple ignorance) the view persists is that every single film adaptation made after 1995 is scrutinized endlessly and usually critiqued for being too sexy. It's all right for the Garson/Olivier version to radically change the plot, but god forbid Isabella go beyond flirting and actually sleep with Capt. Tilney to try to get engaged to him! Maybe if people could just relax a bit, other people wouldn't feel the need to distance themselves from the fandom. |
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