The ESSE Messenger A Publication of ESSE (The European Society for the Study of English) Vol. 28-2 Winter 2019 ISSN 2518-3567 Academic Editorial Board Professor Lilliane Louvel, Université de Poitiers, France Professor Lieven Buysse, KU Leuven, Belgium Professor Wilfrid Rotgé, Université Paris Sorbonne, France Professor Rainer Emig, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany Professor Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak, University of Wroclaw, Poland Professor Teresa Botelho, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal Professor Montserrat Martínez Vázquez, Universidad Pablo Olavide, Spain Professor Himmet Umunç, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey Associate Professor Attila Kiss, University of Szeged, Hungary The ESSE Messenger is indexed in EBSCOHOST and ERIHPLUS and listed at DUOTROPE. All material published in the ESSE Messenger is © Copyright of ESSE and of individual contributors, unless otherwise stated. Requests for permissions to reproduce such material should be addressed to the Editor. Editor: Dr. Adrian Radu Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Faculty of Letters Department of English Str. Horea nr. 31 400202 Cluj-Napoca Romania Email address:
[email protected] Cover illustrations: Front cover. The Complete Novels of Jane Austen. Wordsworth, 2004. Holger, Ellgaard. Bell Howell Filmo. [Public domain]. Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Bell_Howell_Filmo.jpg). Accessed 29.11.2019. Contents The Book-to-film Debate in the Age of Visual Commodities 5 Animal Similes and Metaphors in Great Expectations Claudia Cao 7 Media Franchises, Brand Identity and Fidelity Katerina Marazi 31 “They Just Don’t Get It” Nóra Máthé 53 Lost in Adaptation Asya Sakine Ucar 64 Reviews 73 Chambers, Eddie. Things Done Change. The Cultural Politics of Recent Black Artists in Britain.