This is a comprehensive collection of original essays that explore the aesthetics, economics, and mechanics of movie adaptation, from the days of silent cinema to contemporary franchise phenomena. Featuring a range of theoretical approaches, and...
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This is a comprehensive collection of original essays that explore the aesthetics, economics, and mechanics of movie adaptation, from the days of silent cinema to contemporary franchise phenomena. Featuring a range of theoretical approaches, and chapters on the historical, ideological and economic aspects of adaptation, the volume reflects today's acceptance of intertextuality as a vital and progressive cultural force. Incorporates new research in adaptation studiesFeatures a chapter on the Harry Potter franchise, as well as other contemporary perspectivesShowca This is a comprehensive collection of original essays that explore the aesthetics, economics, and mechanics of movie adaptation, from the days of silent cinema to contemporary franchise phenomena. Featuring a range of theoretical approaches, and chapters on the historical, ideological and economic aspects of adaptation, the volume reflects today’s acceptance of intertextuality as a vital and progressive cultural force.Incorporates new research in adaptation studiesFeatures a chapter on the Harry Potter franchise, as well as other contemporary perspectivesShowcases work by leading Shakespeare adaptation scholarsExplores fascinating topics such as ‘unfilmable’ textsIncludes detailed considerations of Ian McEwan’s Atonementand Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
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LITERATURE, FILM, AND ADAPTATION; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Foreword: Kamilla Elliott; 100+ Years of Adaptations, or, Adaptation as the Art Form of Democracy; Part I: History and Contexts: From Image to Sound; 1: Literary Adaptation in the Silent Era; 2: Writing on the Silent Screen; 3: Adaptation and Modernism; 4: Sound Adaptation Sam Taylor's The Taming of the Shrew; Part II: Approaches; 5: Adaptation and Intertextuality, or, What isn't an Adaptation, and What Does it Matter?; 6: Film Authorship and Adaptation; 7: The Business of Adaptation Reading the Market
Part III: Genre: Film, Television8: Adapting the X-Men Comic-Book Narratives in Film Franchises; 9: The Classic Novel on British Television; Part IV: Authors and Periods; 10: Screened Writers; 11: Murdering Othello; 12: Hamlet's Hauntographology Film Philology, Facsimiles, and Textual Faux-rensics; 13: Shakespeare to Austen on Screen; 14: Austen and Sterne: Beyond Heritage; 15: Neo-Victorian Adaptations; Part V: Beyond Authors and Canonical Texts; 16: Costume and Adaptation; 17: Music into Movies The Film of the Song; 18: Rambo on Page and Screen
Part VI: Case Studies: Adaptable and Unadaptable Texts19: Writing for the Movies Writing and Screening Atonement (2007); 20: Foregrounding the Media Atonement (2007) as an Adaptation; 21: Paratextual Adaptation Heart of Darkness as Hearts of Darkness via Apocalypse Now; 22: Authorship, Commerce, and Harry Potter; 23: Adapting the Unadaptable - The Screenwriter's Perspective; Index
