JASNA has launched a comprehensive Austen on Film section on its Web site. The section is jam-packed with links and information, including cast lists and information about every film adaptation organized by their relation to each of Jane Austen’s novels, information about films that contain homages or references to Jane Austen and her work, biopics, documentaries, and even a few YouTube videos.

A very special feature of the section is links to articles about various films that have appeared in the association’s journal, Persuasions and Persuasions On-Line (some available online for the first time ever), giving scholarly context and additional insights into the films.

Check it out; there might even be a film you’ve missed on there somewhere!

(Full disclosure: the Editrix assisted with the effort, and couldn’t be more pleased with the result.)

The Jane Austen Book Club film’s official site seems to be operational, complete with trailer, synopsis (which is rather non-painful) cast info, a gallery, and it looks like there will eventually be sweepstakes! w00t! Go forth and drool, Dancy fangirls and Blunt fanboys.

Could it be? Could the evil, nasty, tar-hearted, dried-up, humorless, snobbish, polar-opposite-of-kind-and-sweet-Jane, unable to be pleased Editrix be feeling…optimistic about a film adaptation?

(We are not afraid of being overpowered by the impression. It will pass away soon enough. )

Alert Janeite Adrienne was astonished to discover that a spam e-mail she received contained a snippet of text from Emma.

I don’t know which is more distressing: spam using Jane in this way or that my spam filter doesn’t like Jane, either, and wouldn’t let her through.

We posted about this phenomenon a while back, but it’s worth repeating for newer visitors.

By including random text the spammers hope to fool the filters into thinking that a human, not a spammer, wrote the message.

[. . .]

But as Clive Thompson points out, automatically generating text that reads like it was written by a human hand is difficult. This is perhaps why some spammers are turning to out-of-copyright novels for their text. It is an ideal source of real writing.

It’s probably coincidence, so hang on to your tinfoil hats, Gentle Readers, and be glad they’re not sending you, say, Hardy.