Time Regained: Intertextuality and 'The Hours'

A film always exists both as an entity unto itself and as part of a greater network of ideas and influences. Few films make that clearer than Stephen Daldry's The Hours, an adaptation of a novel that, in turn, draws on the life and work of revered twentieth-century author Virginia Woolf. Exploring the film's various connections, Brian McFarlane argues that context can only aid in its appreciation.

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Screens in the Classroom, senior secondary, Mrs Dalloway, period drama