Our podcast on author biopic films, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, and the depiction of the author and novel in The Man Who Invented Christmas
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Dr. Hila Shachar, an English literature and adaptations lecturer from De Montfort University, talks to us about The Man Who Invented Christmas, the style of biographical films, Charles Dickens’ shrewd business and marketing sense, his family life, and the impact of A Christmas Carol.
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For more on Hila’s work on author biopics check out her chapter “Authorial Histories: The Historical Film and the Literary Biopic” in A Companion to the Historical Film
For her work on other classic works in adaptation in her book Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature: Wuthering Heights and Company
For more fact checking on the film see: “How Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Changed the Way the Holiday Is Celebrated”