Television and serial adaptation
As American television continues to garner considerable esteem, rivalling the seventh art in its "cinematic" aesthetics and the complexity of its narratives, one aspect of its development has been relatively unexamined. While film has long acknowledged its tendency to adapt, an ability that contributed to its status as narrative art (capable of translating canonical texts onto the screen), television adaptations have seemingly been relegated to the miniseries or classic serial. From remakes and…
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- Full title :Television and serial adaptation / shannon Wells-Lassagne.
Summary
As American television continues to garner considerable esteem, rivalling the seventh art in its "cinematic" aesthetics and the complexity of its narratives, one aspect of its development has been relatively unexamined. While film has long acknowledged its tendency to adapt, an ability that contributed to its status as narrative art (capable of translating canonical texts onto the screen), television adaptations have seemingly been relegated to the miniseries or classic serial. From remakes and reboots to transmedia storytelling, loose adaptations or adaptations which last but a single episode, the recycling of pre-existing narrative is a practice that is just as common in television as in film, and this text seeks to rectify that oversight, examining series from M*A*S*H to Game of Thrones, Pride and Prejudice to Castle
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- Publication Date:2017.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Place of Publication:Basingstoke
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (232 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781315524528, 131552452X
- oclc:ocn970042011
- LC Classification:PN1990-1997
- Dewey Decimal:791
Table of Contents
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; PART I: Building Blocks; 1 Television and Adaptation: Defining Terms; 2 Beginning, Middle, and End: Structure and Seriality in Television Adaptation; PART II: Home Entertainment; 3 Familiarity and Novelty: Television Microadaptations; 4 Crossing Over: Television Adaptation, between Universality and Specificity; 5 Origin and Intention: Authorship in Television Adaptation; PART III: Broadcasting ... ; 6 Here and There and Back Again: TV's Influence on Popular Fiction; Conclusion; Works Cited; TV Shows Cited; Films Cited
Books CitedPrimary Sources and Literature; Secondary Sources: Adaptation; Secondary Sources: Television and Film; Secondary Sources: Literary Criticism and Theory; Articles Cited; Webliography; Artwork Cited; Index
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