A Theory of Adaptation.
A Theory of Adaptation explores the continuous development of creative adaptation, and argues that the practice of adapting is central to the story-telling imagination. Linda Hutcheon develops a theory of adaptation through a range of media, from film and opera, to video games, pop music and theme p...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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London : Routledge,
2012
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| Ausgabe: | 2nd ed. |
| Schlagworte: | Literature ; Adaptations Music and literature Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (296 pages) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Front Cover; A Theory of Adaptation; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; Chapter 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; Chapter 2. What? (Forms); Medium Specificity Revisited; Telling ← → Showing
- Showing ← → ShowingInteracting → Telling or Showing; Cliché #1; Cliché #2; Cliché #3; Cliché #4; Learning from Practice; Chapter 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; Chapter 4. How? (Audiences); The Pleasures of Adaptation; Knowing and Unknowing Audiences; Modes of Engagement Revisited; Kinds and Degrees of Immersion; Chapter 5. Where? When? (Contexts); The Vastness of Context; Transcultural Adaptation; Indigenization
- Learning from PracticeWhy Carmen?; The Carmen Story-and Stereotype; Indigenizing Carmen; Chapter 6. Final Questions; What is not an Adaptation?; What is the Appeal of Adaptations?; Epilogue; References; Index;