Yet no work of Jane Austen reached the big screen before 1940's Pride and Prejudice – which, though highly popular, was the last Austen film for a long period. ... Following the 1995 Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and two more Emmas, all before the end of 1996. ... There viewers may be unable to recognize how film translates the complexity and subtlety of the novel. ... Each medium has its own specificity deriving from its respective materials of expression. ... The amount of light and its style express the theme and mood of a film. ...

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