Screen Adaptation: Impure Cinema

by Hester Bradley, Imelda Whelehan

Overview

Adaptation studies has historically been neglected in both the English and Film Studies curricula. Reflecting on this, Screen Adaptation celebrates its emergence in the late 20th and 21st centuries and explores the varieties of methodologies and debates within the field. Drawing on approaches from genre studies to transtexuality to cultural materialism, the book examines adaptations of both popular and canonical writers, including William Shakespeare, Jane Austen and J.K.Rowling.

Original and provocative, this book will spark new thinking and research in the field of adaptation studies. Mapping the way in which this exciting field has emerged and shifted over the last two decades, the book is also essential reading for students of English Literature and Film.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403985507
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/03/2010
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

DEBORAH CARTMELL is Reader in English at De Montfort University, UK. She is editor of the journals Shakespeare and Adaptation and has published widely on film adaptations of literary classics.

IMELDA WHELEHAN is Professor of English and Women's Studies at De Montfort University, UK. She is the author of Modern Feminist Thought, Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones' Diary and The Feminist Bestseller. She is co-editor of the journal Adaptation and has published widely on adaptation studies.
DEBORAH CARTMELL is Reader in English at De Montfort University, UK. She is editor of the journals Shakespeare and Adaptation and has published widely on film adaptations of literary classics.

IMELDA WHELEHAN is Professor of English and Women's Studies at De Montfort University, UK. She is the author of Modern Feminist Thought, Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones' Diary and The Feminist Bestseller. She is co-editor of the journal Adaptation and has published widely on adaptation studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements viii

Introduction 1

1 Adaptations: Theories, Interpretations and New Dilemmas 10

2 Film on Literature: Film as the New Shakespeare 28

3 Literature on Film: Writers on Adaptations in the Early Twentieth Century 41

4 Authorial Suicide: Adaptation as Appropriation in Peter Pan 57

5 Beyond Fidelity: Transtextual Approaches 73

6 Genre and Adaptation: Genre, Hollywood, Shakespeare, Austen 84

7 A Simple Twist? The Genrification of Nineteenth-Century Fiction 97

8 Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Letters on Screen 112

Conclusion: Impure Cinema - Another Apology for Adaptations 127

Notes 132

Bibliography 146

Select Filmography 154

Index 156