Adaptation Studies: New Approaches

Adaptation Studies: New Approaches
Contributor(s): Cutchins, Dennis (Author), Albrecht-Crane, Christa (Author)


ISBN: 0838642624 EAN: 9780838642627


Binding: Hardcover
Language(s): English
Pub Date: July 01, 2010


This collection of essays offers a sustained, theoretically rigorous rethinking of various issues at work in film and other media adaptations.

The essays in the volume as a whole explore the reciprocal, intertextual quality of adaptations that borrow, rework, and adapt each other in complex ways; in addition, the authors explore the specific forces (social, economic, historical, and authorial) that are at work in particular texts and inter-texts.

Together, the fourteen essays collected in this volume emphasize that, in their intersection, novels and films (and many other forms of adaptations across media) inhabit a sort of cross-fertilization that is both artistically productive and affirmative of difference. The essays in the volume focus on three particular area of inquiry: fidelity, ethics, and intertextuality; literature, film adaptation, and beyond; and adaptation as departure across media. Christa Albrecht-Crane is Associate Professor in the Department of Englishand Literature at Utah Valley University. Dennis Cutchins is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University.

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