Where is Adaptation?

Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts

Editors

Casie Hermansson

Janet Zepernick

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Where is Adaptation? Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts explores the vast terrain of contemporary adaptation studies and offers a wide variety of answers to the title question in 24 chapters by 29 international practitioners and scholars of adaptation, both eminent and emerging. From insightful self-analyses by practitioners (a novelist, a film director, a comics artist) to analyses of adaptations of place, culture, and identity, the authors brought together in this collection represent a broad cross-section of current work in adaptation studies. From the development of technologies impacting film festivals, to the symbiotic potential of interweaving disability and adaptation studies, censorship, exploring the “glocal,” and an examination of the Association for Adaptation Studies at its 10th anniversary, the original contributions in this volume aim to trace the leading edges of this evolving field.

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 9] 2018. xix, 431 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.9

Table of Contents

List of figures (by Chapter) | pp. xi–xii

Contributors | pp. xv–xx

Series editor’s preface | pp. xiii–xiv

Introduction: Where is adaptation? Why ask?

Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick | pp. 1–10

Part I. Adaptation at the borderlines

Chapter 1. Adaptation as salvage: Transcoding history into fiction in The Naturalist

Thom Conroy | pp. 15–30

Chapter 2. Adapting history: Queries and notes about nonfiction comics

Emi Gennis and Sandra Cox | pp. 31–56

Chapter 3. Watching as data mining: Seeing Person of Interest through the prism of adaptation

Thomas Van Parys | pp. 57–70

Chapter 4. Adaptation as city branding: The case of Dexter and Miami

Vanessa Herrmann | pp. 71–86

Chapter 5. The post-nostalgia film: Adapting West Yorkshire in British heritage and social realist film

Alexis Brown | pp. 87–102

Part II. Adaptation and transculturation

Chapter 6. A spectrum of operatic adaptations: Director’s Opera and audience expectations

Michael Hutcheon and Linda Hutcheon | pp. 107–124

Chapter 7. “Such a transformation!” Shakespeare remade: Sulayman Al-Bassam’s Richard III, an Arab Tragedy

Yusur Al-Madani | pp. 125–140

Chapter 8. Indian Fakespeare: The idea of Shakespeare in translation

Jim Casey | pp. 141–158

Chapter 9. Transculturating Shakespeare: Vishal Bhardwaj’s Mumbai Macbeth

Ana Cristina Mendes | pp. 159–174

Part III. Adaptation at the contact zone

Chapter 10. Relocation as Adaptation in An African City

S. Olivia Donaldson | pp. 179–196

Chapter 11. The practice of adaptation in the Turkish Republic: Patriotic communities

Laurence Raw | pp. 197–210

Chapter 12. The limits of Orientalism: Relocating Identity in two Arabian Nights

Jerod Ra’Del Hollyfield | pp. 211–228

Chapter 13. Mexican Cinema in the Buffyverse: Toward an ethics of transnational adaptation and appropriation

David Dalton | pp. 229–244

Chapter 14. Fresh Off the Boat : Meeting whose expectations?

Jiahong Wang | pp. 245–256

Part IV. Adaptation and intersections

Chapter 15. A brief history of the Association of Adaptation Studies

Deborah Cartmell, Jeremy Strong and Imelda Whelehan | pp. 259–270

Chapter 16. Adaptation as defense against film censorship: Pasolini’s Salò – 120 Days of Sodom in Italy and the UK

Valentina Signorelli | pp. 271–286

Chapter 17. Where is disability in adaptation studies?

Jamie McDaniel | pp. 287–304

Chapter 18. The new real: Virtual reality and adapting the film festival experience

Joi Tribble | pp. 305–320

Part V. Adaptation as creative process

Chapter 19. From rainy Soho to sunny Kings Cross: Remapping and contemporizing Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent

Jonathan Ogilvie | pp. 323–342

Chapter 20. Where does the “meta” go in adapting children’s metafiction to the screen? The case of “A Series of Unfortunate Events”

Casie Hermansson | pp. 343–364

Chapter 21. The adaptation of “adaptation” in translation studies focusing on children’s literature

Melissa Garavini | pp. 365–380

Chapter 22. Stories ad infinitum : Embedded narratives and challenges in adapting The Saragossa Manuscript

Jessy Neau | pp. 381–398

Chapter 23. “A dream within a dream”: The politics of dislocation in Head On and Picnic at Hanging Rock

Hila Shachar | pp. 399–414

Chapter 24. Breaking walls: Theater of Cruelty and its adaptations in Jalila Baccar and Fadhel Jaïbi’s Violence(s)

Haythem Guesmi

Index | pp. 427–431

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