Adaptation and cultural appropriation : literature, film, and the arts / edited by Pascal Nicklas and Oliver Lindner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nicklas, Pascal.

Lindner, Oliver.

Series:

Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft ; 27.

Spectrum literaturwissenschaft/spectrum literature, 1860-210X ; 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Adaptations--History and criticism.

Literature.

Film adaptations--History and criticism.

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Hamlet" by Olivier, Kaurismäki or Shepard and "Pride and Prejudice" in its many adaptations show the virulence of these texts and the importance of aesthetic recycling for the formation of cultural identity and diversity. Adaptation has always been a standard literary and cultural strategy, and can be regarded as the dominant means of production in the cultural industries today. Focusing on a variety of aspects such as artistic strategies and genre, but also marketing and cultural politics, this volume takes a critical look at ways of adapting and appropriating cultural texts across epochs an

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

Table of Contents

Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation / Nicklas, Pascal / Lindner, Oliver

Adaptation in Theory / Emig, Rainer

Familiarity versus Contempt: Becoming Jane and the Adaptation Genre / Cartmell, Deborah

Pride and Promiscuity and Zombies, or: Miss Austen Mashed Up in the Affinity Spaces of Participatory Culture / Voigts-Virchow, Eckart

Where Did Your Adaptation Begin?: Book Fairs, Screen Festivals and Writers' Weeks as Engine-rooms of Adaptation / Murray, Simone

Conversing with Ghosts: Or, the Ethics of Adaptation / Pietrzak-Franger, Monika

Cultural Heritage / Heritage Culture: Adapting the Contemporary British Historical Novel / Childs, Peter

Revisiting Shakespeare: Elizabeth Rex as Filmic Metatext / Schaffeld, Norbert

"An Entirely Different and New Story": A Case Study of Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes (2001) / Lindner, Oliver

Grisly Skeletons and Happy Endings: The Adaptations and Appropriations of Joseph Conrad's Fiction / Hand, Richard J.

The Adaptation of Adaptation: A Dialogue between the Arts and Sciences / Elliott, Kamilla

Fidelity, Simultaneity and the 'Remaking' of Adaptation Studies / Dovey, Lindiwe

Brontë Meets Bollywood: The Ambivalences of Appropriation and Adaptation in Tamasha's Wuthering Heights / Krämer, Lucia

Odysseus, Crusoe and the Making of the Caribbean Hero. Derek Walcott's Variations of Great Traditions / Breitinger, Eckhard

Appropriating Achebe: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and "The Headstrong Historian" / Tunca, Daria

Revisiting Bolton: Transcultural Adaptation and Regional Identity in Ayub Khan-Din's Rafta, Rafta / Schlote, Christiane

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283857796

1283857790

9783110272239

3110272237

9783110272246

3110272245

OCLC:

796384234