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 studies
* Features a chapter on the Harry Potter franchise, as well as
other contemporary perspectives
* Showcases work by leading Shakespeare adaptation scholars
* Explores fascinating topics such as ‚unfilmable‘
texts
* Includes detailed considerations of Ian Mc Ewan’s
Atonement and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xi
Foreword: Kamilla Elliott xii
100 Years of Adaptations, or, Adaptation as the Art Form of Democracy 1
Deborah Cartmell
Part I History and Contexts: From Image to Sound 15
1 Literary Adaptation in the Silent Era 17
Judith Buchanan
2 Writing on the Silent Screen 33
Gregory Robinson
3 Adaptation and Modernism 52
Richard J. Hand
4 Sound Adaptation: Sam Taylor’s The Taming of the Shrew 70
Deborah Cartmell
Part II Approaches 85
5 Adaptation and Intertextuality, or, What isn’t an Adaptation, and What Does it Matter? 87
Thomas Leitch
6 Film Authorship and Adaptation 105
Shelley Cobb
7 The Business of Adaptation: Reading the Market 122
Simone Murray
Part III Genre: Film, Television 141
8 Adapting the X-Men: Comic-Book Narratives in Film Franchises 143
Martin Zeller-Jacques
9 The Classic Novel on British Television 159
Richard Butt
Part IV Authors and Periods 177
10 Screened Writers 179
Kamilla Elliott
11 Murdering Othello 198
Douglas M. Lanier
12 Hamlet’s Hauntographology: Film Philology, Facsimiles, and Textual Faux-rensics 216
Richard Burt
13 Shakespeare to Austen on Screen 241
Lisa Hopkins
14 Austen and Sterne: Beyond Heritage 256
Ariane Hudelet
15 Neo-Victorian Adaptations 272
Imelda Whelehan
Part V Beyond Authors and Canonical Texts 293
16 Costume and Adaptation 295
Pamela Church Gibson and Tamar Jeffers Mc Donald
17 Music into Movies: The Film of the Song 312
Ian Inglis
18 Rambo on Page and Screen 330
Jeremy Strong
Part VI Case Studies: Adaptable and Unadaptable Texts 343
19 Writing for the Movies: Writing and Screening Atonement (2007) 345
Yvonne Griggs
20 Foregrounding the Media: Atonement (2007) as an Adaptation 359
Christine Geraghty
21 Paratextual Adaptation: Heart of Darkness as Hearts of Darkness via Apocalypse Now 374
Jamie Sherry
22 Authorship, Commerce, and Harry Potter 391
James Russell
23 Adapting the Unadaptable – The Screenwriter’s Perspective 408
Diane Lake
Index 416
Über den Autor
Deborah Cartmell is Professor of English and Director of
the Centre for Adaptations at De Montfort University, UK. A former
chair and founding member of the Association of Adaptation Studies,
she is co-editor of two international journals –
Shakespeare and Adaptation. Her recent publications
include Screen Adaptation: Jane Austen’s Pride and
Prejudice (2010) and, with Imelda Whelehan, Screen Adaptation:
Impure Cinema (2010).
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