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A theory of adaptation / Linda Hutcheon with Siobhan O'Flynn.
Van Pelt Library PN171.A33 H88 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hutcheon, Linda, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--Adaptations.
- Literature.
- Music and literature.
- Physical Description:
- pages cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Summary:
- A Theory of Adaptation explores the continuous development of creative adaptation, and argues that the practice of adapting is central to the story-telling imagination. Linda Hutcheon develops a theory of adaptation through a range of media, from film and opera, to video games, pop music and theme parks, analysing the breadth, scope and creative possibilities within each.
- This new edition is supplemented by a new preface from the author, discussing both new adaptive forms/platforms and recent critical developments in the study of adaptation. It also features an illuminating new epilogue from Siobhan O'Flynn, focusing on adaptation in the context of digital media. She considers the impact of transmedia practices and properties on the form and practice of adaptation, as well as studying the extension of game narrative across media platforms, fan-based adaptation (from Twitter and Facebook to home movies), and the adaptation of books to digital formats.
- A Theory of Adaptation is the ideal guide to this ever evolving field of study and is essential reading for anyone interested in adaptation in the context of literary and media studies. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Beginning to Theorize Adaptation: What? Who? Why? How? Where? When? 1
- Familiarity and Contempt 2
- Treating Adaptations as Adaptations 6
- Exactly What Gets Adapted? How? 9
- Double Vision: Defining Adaptation 15
- Adaptation as Product Announced, Extensive, Specific Transcoding 16
- Adaptation as Process 18
- Modes of Engagement 22
- Framing Adaptation 27
- Chapter 2 What? (Forms) 33
- Medium Specificity Revisited 33
- Telling ←→ Showing 38
- Showing ←→ Showing 46
- Interacting ←→ Telling or Showing 50
- Cliché #1 52
- Cliché #2 56
- Cliché #3 63
- Cliché #4 68
- Learning from Practice 72
- Chapter 3 Who? Why? (Adapters) 79
- Who is the Adapter? 80
- Why Adapt? 85
- The Economic Lures 86
- The Legal Constraints 88
- Cultural Capital 91
- Personal and Political Motives 92
- Learning from Practice 95
- Intentionality in Adaptations 105
- Chapter 4 How? (Audiences) 113
- The pleasures of Adaptation 114
- Knowing and Unknowing Audiences 120
- Modes of Engagement Revisited 128
- Kinds and Degrees of Immersion 133
- Chapter 5 Where? When? (Contexts) 141
- The Vastness of Context 142
- Transcultural Adaptation 145
- Indenization 148
- Learning from Practice 153
- Why Carmen? 153
- The Carmen Story-and Stereotype 154
- Indigenizing Carmen 158
- Chapter 6 Final Questions 169
- What Is Not an Adaptation? 170
- What Is the Appeal of Adaptations? 172.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415539371
- 0415539374
- 9780415539388
- 0415539382
- 9780203095010
- 0203095014
- OCLC:
- 781848550
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