Book description
Adaptations considers the theoretical and practical difficulties surrounding the translation of a text into film, and the reverse process; the novelisation of films. Through three sets of case studies, the contributors examine the key debates surrounding adaptations: whether screen versions of literary classics can be faithful to the text; if something as capsulated as Jane Austens irony can even be captured on film; whether costume dramas always of their own time and do adaptations remake their parent text to reflect contemporary ideas and concerns.Tracing the complex alterations which texts experience between different media, Adaptations is a unique exploration of the relationship between text and film.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Full Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- List of illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- PART I An overview
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PART II From text to screen
- 2 Introduction
- 3 The Shakespeare on screen industry
- 4 Conservative Austen, radical Austen: Sense and Sensibility from text to screen
- 5 From Emma to Clueless: Taste, pleasure and the scene of history
- 6 Imagining the Puritan body: The 1995 cinematic version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
- 7 Four Little Women: Three films and a novel
- 8 Will Hollywood never learn? David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch
- 9 Adapting the Holocaust: Schindler's List, intellectuals and public knowledge
- 10 Speaking out: The transformations of Trainspotting
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PART III From screen to text and multiple adaptations
- 11 Introduction
- 12 Orlando: Coming across the divide
- 13 Jane Campion and the limits of literary cinema
- 14 The wrath of the original cast: Translating embodied television characters to other media
- 15 Batman: One life, many faces
- 16 ‘Thou art translated’: Analysing animated adaptation
- 17 ‘A doggy fairy tale’: The film metamorphoses of The Hundred and One Dalmatians
- Bibliography
- Index
Product information
- Title: Adaptations
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2013
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136219665
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