Adaptation Studies: New Approaches

Adaptation Studies: New Approaches
ISBN-10
0838642624
ISBN-13
9780838642627
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
306
Language
English
Published
2010
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Authors
Dennis Ray Cutchins, Christa Albrecht-Crane

Description

The volume takes as its starting point the assumption that adapters cannot simply "transpose" or transfer one particular text from one medium to another. They must interpret, re-work, and re-imagine the precursor text in order to choose the various meanings and sensations they find most compelling (or most cost-effective); then, they create scenes, characters, plot elements, etc., that match their interpretation. These very relationships are the subject matter this collection seeks to explore. Poststructural theory is an ideal place to begin a rigorous and theoretically sound investigation of adaptation. As adaptation studies adopts a poststructuralist lens and defines this richer notion of intertextuality, some of its key assumptions will change. Adaptation scholars will recognize that all film adaptations are intertextual by definition, multivocal by necessity, and adaptive by their nature --

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