£24.29
Publication Date:
09 May 2013
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Academic
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Description
Extending the boundaries of contemporary adaptation studies, this book brings together leading international scholars to survey new directions in the field. Re-thinking the key questions at the heart of the discipline, Adaptation Studies: New Directions, New Challenges explores a wide range of perspectives and case studies in cross-media transformation. Topics covered include: * The history of adaptation studies * Theories of adaptation * Adaptations in film, literature, radio and historical sources * What is an 'original' text?
Contents
Introduction, Jorgen Bruhn, Anne Gjelsvik, and Eirik Frisvold Hanssen \ Part I: Rethinking the Core Questions \ 1. Theorizing Adaptations/Adapting Theories, Kamilla Elliott \ 2. Adaptation and Adaptive Revision: The Problem of Textual Identity, John Bryant \ 3. Dialogizing Adaptation Studies: From One Way Transport to a Dialogic Process, Jorgen Bruhn \ 4. Adaptation as Connection: Transmediality Reconsidered, Regina Schober \ 5. Adaptations within the Field of Media Transformations, Lars Ellestroem \ 6. Imaginary Museums: Andre Bazin, Film Theory and Adaptation, Eirik Frisvold Hanssen \ 7. What Movies Want, Tom Leitch \ Part II: Theorizing the Case-Study \ 8. The Medium Strikes Back: 'Impossible Adaptation' Revisited, Hajnal Kiraly \ 9. 'Pre-Texts': The Notebook Case (Bergman), Anna Sofia Rossholm \ 10. Tracing the Original: The Film Invictus and Based on a True Story Adaptation, Sara Brinch \ 11. What Novels Can Tell That Movies Can't Show, Anne Gjelsvik \ 12. Literature Through Radio: Distance, Silence and Media Archaeology: The War of the Worlds 1938/1898, Jonas Ingvarsson \ Bibliography \ Index.
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