| List of illustrations | |
| List of contributors | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | 1 |
| 1 | Short "Takes on Austen: summarizing the controversy between literary purists and film enthusiasts | 9 |
| A few skeptical thoughts on Jane Austen and film | 10 |
| Sense and Sensibility: Ang Lee's sensitive screen interpretation of Jane Austen | 12 |
| Commodifying Austen: the Janeite culture of the Internet and commercialization through product and television series spinoffs | 15 |
| 2 | Janeite culture: what does the name "Jane Austen" authorize? | 22 |
| 3 | "Such a transformation!": translation, imitation, and intertextuality in Jane Austen on screen | 44 |
| 4 | Two Mansfield Parks: purist and postmodern | 69 |
| 5 | Sense and Sensibility in a postfeminist world: sisterhood is still powerful | 90 |
| 6 | Regency romance shadowing in the visual motifs of Roger Michell's Persuasion | 111 |
| 7 | Filming romance: Persuasion | 127 |
| 8 | Emma, interrupted: speaking Jane Austen in fiction and film | 144 |
| 9 | Reimagining Jane Austen: the 1940 and 1995 film versions of Pride and Prejudice | 175 |
| 10 | Emma and the art of adaptation | 197 |
| 11 | Clues for the clueless | 228 |
| Questions for discussion | 254 |
| Filmography | 260 |
| Bibliography | 266 |
| Index | 281 |