Books in motion : adaptation, intertextuality, authorship / edited by Mireia Aragay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aragay, Mireia.

Series:

Contemporary cinema ; 2.

Contemporary cinema ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--Film adaptations.

Fiction.

Film adaptations.

Motion pictures and literature.

Intertextuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Books in Motion addresses the hybrid, interstitial field of film adaptation. The introductory essay integrates a retrospective survey of the development of adaptation studies with a forceful argument about their centrality to any history of culture-any discussion, that is, of the transformation and transmission of texts and meanings in and across cultures. The thirteen especially composed essays that follow, organised into four sections headed 'Paradoxes of Fidelity', 'Authors, Auteurs, Adaptation', 'Contexts, Intertexts, Adaptation' and 'Beyond Adaptation', variously illustrate that claim by

Contents:

CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Paradoxes of Fidelity; Authors, Auteurs, Adaptation; Contexts, Intertexts, Adaptation; Beyond Adaptation; Notes on Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0275-3

1-4237-9082-0

OCLC:

70852589