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| Adaptation Studies: New Approaches |
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Editor - Christa Albrecht-Crane and Dennis Cutchins
Publication Date - July 2010
Number of Pages - 306
ISBN #9780838642627
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Price $57.50 - Price subject to change
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This collection of essays offers a sustained, theoretically rigorous rethinking of various issues at work in film and other media adaptations. The essays in the volume as a whole explore the reciprocal, intertextual quality of adaptations that borrow, rework, and adapt each other in complex ways; in addition, the authors explore the specific forces (social, economic, historical, and authorial) that are at work in particular texts and inter-texts. Together, the fourteen essays collected in this volume emphasize that, in their intersection, novels and films (and many other forms of adaptations across media) inhabit a sort of cross-fertilization that is both artistically productive and affirmative of difference. The essays in the volume focus on three particular areas of inquiry: fidelity, ethics, and intertextuality; literature, film adaptation, and beyond; and adaptation as departure across media.
Among the film adaptations are Jane Austen and James Joyce's fiction, Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, David Lynch's Lost Highway, and George Romero's Night of the Living Dead.
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| Author/Editor Biographies |
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Christa Albrecht-Crane is Associate Professor and Assistant Chair in the Department of English and Literature at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, where she teaches courses in first-year writing, critical theory, and film.
Dennis Cutchins is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University where he teaches adaptation studies as well as American and western literature.
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