Pictures of Poverty The Works of George R. Sims and Their Screen Adaptations

• Main Author: Jakobs, Lydia
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bloomington John Libbey Publishing 2021; Indiana University Press
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Film & Video; Film Studies; PERFORMING ARTS; Poor in motion pictures

From Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist to George Sims's How the Poor Live , illustrated accounts of poverty were en vogue in Victorian Britain. Poverty was also a popular subject on the screen, whether in dramatic retellings of well-known stories or in 'documentary' photographs take...