| Description |
viii, 161 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes filmography (p. 154-155). |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-153) and index. |
| Contents |
Adaptations : theories, interpretations and new dilemmas -- Film on literature: film as the new Shakespeare -- Literature on film : writers on adaptations in the early twentieth century -- Authorial suicide : adaptation as appropriation in Peter Pan -- Beyond fidelity : transtextual approaches -- Genre and adaptation : genre, Hollywood, Shakespeare, Austen -- A simple twist : The genrification of nineteenth-century fiction -- Les Liaisons dangereuses : letters on screen -- Conclusions : impure cinema: another apology for adaptations. |
| Summary |
Adaptation studies has historically been neglected in both the English and Film Studies curricula. Reflecting on this, Screen Adaptation celebrates its emergence in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries and explores the varieties of methodologies and debates within the field. Drawing on approaches from genre studies to transtexuality to cultural materialism, the book examines adaptations of both popular and canonical writers, including William Shakespeare, Jane Austen and J.K. Rowling. Original and provocative, this book will spark new thinking and research in the field of adaptation studies. Mapping the way in which this exciting field has emerged and shifted over the last two decades, the book is also essential reading for students of English literature and film. Book Jacket. |
| Subject |
Film adaptations -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Whelehan, Imelda, 1960-
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| ISBN |
9781403985507 (pbk.) |
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1403985502 (pbk.) |
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9781403985491 |
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1403985499 |
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