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Adaptation in Contemporary Culture : Textual Infidelities.
Title:
Adaptation in Contemporary Culture : Textual Infidelities.
Author:
Carroll, Rachel.
ISBN:
9781441181213
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (225 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: Textual Infidelities -- PART I: Remaking Fidelity -- CHAPTER TWO: Heavy Bodies, Fragile Texts: Stage Adaptation and the Problem of Presence -- CHAPTER THREE: Reflections on the Surface: Remaking the Postmodern with van Sant's Psycho -- CHAPTER FOUR: Affecting Fidelity: Adaptation, Fidelity and Affect in Todd Haynes's Far From Heaven -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Folding Text: Doctor Who, Adaptation and Fan Fiction -- PART II: After-images -- CHAPTER SIX: 3:10 Again: A Remade Western and the Problem of Authenticity -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Child's Play: Participation in Urban Space in Weegee's, Dassin's and Debord's Versions of Naked City -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Charlotte's Website: Media Transformation and the Intertextual Web of Children's Culture -- CHAPTER NINE: 'Stop Writing or Write Like a Rat': Becoming Animal in Animated Literary Adaptations -- PART III: Reproducing the Past -- CHAPTER TEN: Historicizing the Classic Novel Adaptation: Bleak House (2005) and British Television Contexts -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Embodying Englishness: Representations of Whiteness, Class and Empire in The Secret Garden -- CHAPTER TWELVE: Taming the Velvet: Lesbian Identity in Cultural Adaptations of Tipping the Velvet -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: 'Who's the Daddy?': The Aesthetics and Politics of Representation in Alfonso Cuarón's adaptation of P. D. James's Children of Men -- PART IV: Afterlives -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Origin and Ownership: Stage, Film and Television Adaptations of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Post-feminist Biopic: Re-telling the Past in Iris, The Hours and Sylvia -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: For the Love of Jane: Austen, Adaptation and Celebrity -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Glamorama, Cinematic Narrative and Contemporary Fiction -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L.

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Abstract:
Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities seeks to reconfigure the ways in which adaptation is conceptualised by considering adaptation within an extended range of generic, critical and theoretical contexts. This collection explores literary, film, television and other visual texts both as 'origins' and 'adaptations' and offers new insights into the construction of genres, canons and 'classics'. Chapters investigate both 'classic' and contemporary texts by British and American authors, from Jane Austen, Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Dickens to Bret Easton Ellis, P.D James and Sarah Waters. A diverse range of literary, film and television genres is examined, from romance to science fiction, the Western to the 'women's picture' and the heritage film to postmodern pastiche. With a thematic focus on key critical paradigms for adaptation studies - fidelity, intertextuality, historicity and authorship - this collection expands the field of adaptation studies beyond its conventional focus on 'page to screen' adaptations to include film remakes, video games, biopics, fan fiction and celebrity culture.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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