Ghosts and Dickens

One cold, bleak, biting Christmas Eve, Ebeneezer Scrooge is confronted by ghosts, brought face to face with his repressed memories, the errors of his present, and the possibilities of a better future to come. For Charles Dickens, remembering is essential to our humanity, and as Scrooge discovers in A Christmas Carol there is no better time of year to remember than Christmas itself. Simon James steps into the imaginative world of Dickens’ nineteenth-century novels, and follows their ghosts into the present as they haunt modern film viewers who revel in the annual Dickensian Christmas movie.