Adaptation in Visual Culture: Images, Texts, and Their Multiple Worlds

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This book gathers together essays written by leading scholars of adaptation studies to explore the full range of practices and issues currently of concern in the field. The chapters demonstrate how content and messaging are shared across an increasing number of platforms, whose interrelationships have become as intriguing as they are complex. Recognizing that a signature feature of contemporary culture is the convergence of different forms of media, the contributors of this book argue that adaptation studies has emerged as a key discipline that, unlike traditional literary and art criticism, is capable of identifying and analyzing the relations between source texts and adaptations created from them. Adaptation scholars have come to understand that these relations not only play out in individual case histories but are also institutional, and this collection shows how adaptation plays a key role in the functioning of cinema, television, art, and print media. The volume is essential reading for all those interested both in adaptation studies and also in the complex forms of intermediality that define contemporary culture in the 21st century. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Film Novelization (Constantine Verevis)....Pages 3-19 What Can Adaptation Studies Learn from Fan Studies? (Laurence Raw)....Pages 21-36 The Task of the Adaptation Critic (Glenn Jellenik)....Pages 37-52 Mind the Gaps (Thomas Leitch)....Pages 53-71 Continuation, Adaptation Studies, and the Never-Finished Text (R. Barton Palmer)....Pages 73-99 Unfilmable Books (Kamilla Elliott)....Pages 101-118 A Dickensian Feast: Visual Culture and Television Aesthetics (Sarah Cardwell)....Pages 119-137 Star Adaptations: Queen Biopics of the 1930s (Deborah Cartmell)....Pages 139-155 Front Matter ....Pages 157-157 Between a Sequel and a Market Crash: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Jack Boozer)....Pages 159-174 Dissolving Media Boundaries: The Interaction of Literature, Film, and Television in Tender Is the Night (1985) (Christine Geraghty)....Pages 175-191 Fargos (Julie Grossman)....Pages 193-211 Alfred in Wonderland: Hitchcock Through the Looking-Glass (Mark Osteen)....Pages 213-234 Japanese Avant-garde and the Moga (“Modern Girl”) (Homer B. Pettey)....Pages 235-253 The Worlds of Downton Abbey (Nancy M. West)....Pages 254-270 Back Matter ....Pages 271-285