A theory of adaptation

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Persuasive and illuminating, 'A Theory of Adaptation' is a bold rethinking of how adaptation works across all media and genres that may put an end to the age-old question of whether the book was better than the movie, or the opera, or the theme park.

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Title Statements

Full title :A theory of adaptation / Linda Hutcheon with Siobhan O'Flynn.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.
Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

Notes

Previous edition: 2006.

The Physical Object

Description:1 volume : : illustrations ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780415539371, 0415539374, 9780415539388, 0415539382
oclc:ocn795181685
LC Classification:PN171.A33
Dewey Decimal:809

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Beginning To Theorize Adaptation: What? Who? Why? How? Where? When? -- Familiarity and Contempt -- Treating Adaptations as Adaptations -- Exactly What Gets Adapted? How? -- Double Vision: Defining Adaptation -- Adaptation as Product: Announced, Extensive, Specific Transcoding -- Adaptation as Process -- Modes of Engagement -- Framing Adaptation -- ch. 2 What? (Forms) -- Medium Specificity Revisited -- Telling [←] [→] Showing -- Showing [←] [→] Showing -- Interacting [←] [→] Telling or Showing -- Cliche #1 -- Cliche #2 -- Cliche #3 -- Cliche #4 -- Learning from Practice -- ch. 3 Who? Why? (Adapters) -- Who Is the Adapter? -- Why Adapt? -- The Economic Lures -- The Legal Constraints -- Cultural Capital -- Personal And Political Motives -- Learning From Practice -- Intentionality In Adaptations -- ch. 4 How? (Audiences) -- The Pleasures of Adaptation -- Knowing and Unknowing Audiences

Note continued: Modes of Engagement Revisited -- Kinds and Degrees of Immersion -- ch. 5 Where? When? (Contexts) -- The Vastness of Context -- Transcultural Adaptation -- Indigenization -- Learning from Practice -- Why Carmen? -- The Carmen Story -- and Stereotype…

Subjects

Adaptations Bearbeitung Bearbetning (litteraturvetenskap) Intermedialität Künste Literatur Literature Literature -- Adaptations Music and literature Musik och litteratur Musique et littérature