Olivers Twisted: Urban Milieu from Text to Media by Mario Martino

“…This paper focuses on two transpositions of Oliver Twist: Oliver!, by Carol Reed, and the Walt Disney cartoon Oliver & Company, both of which are musicals. …”
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Poverty, Dickens’s Oliver Twist, and J. R. McCulloch by Ayşe Çelikkol

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Dickens, David Lean, and After: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations of Oliver Twist by Chris Louttit

“…The dramatic and aesthetic effectiveness of Lean’s Oliver Twist might be seen, in a sense, as an improvement on the efforts of an inexperienced writer, and it has certainly had a strong effect on the novel’s life on film and television. …”
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Normative Ideology, Transgressive Aesthetics: Depicting and Exploring the Urban Underworld in Oliver Twist (1838), Twist (2003) and Boy Called Twist (2004) by Clémence Folléa

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Steel Bubbles: Death, Inexhaustibility, and Dickens’s Idea of the Book in Sketches by Boz, First Series (1836) by Jeffrey Jackson

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Ambivalent Father Figures and the Enigma of Male Identity in Dickens’s Fiction by Max Véga-Ritter

“…It throws light on the way Dickens functioned in his earlier novels ambivalently or irresolutely, but alternately, on two opposite poles of his mind, those of self-identification with the benign—but eventually possibly inadequate—father image in the Pickwick Papers—the second Scrooge—or of a counter identification with its opposite negative image—the Rebels—in Oliver Twist, leaving the question of sex identity open or in a state of conundrum. …”
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