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.
