Adaptation Studies New Challenges, New Directions [Hardcover]

Extending the boundaries of contemporary adaptation studies, this book brings together leading international scholars to survey new directions in the field. Re-thinking the key questions at the heart of the discipline,Adaptation Studies: New Directions, New Challengesexplores a wide range of perspectives and case studies in cross-media transformation.

Topics covered include:
* The history of adaptation studies
* Theories of adaptation
* Adaptations in film, literature, radio and historical sources
* What is an ???original' text?

Introduction, J??rgen Bruhn, Anne Gjelsvik, and Eirik Frisvold Hanssen \ Part I: Rethinking the Core Questions \ 1. Theorizing Adaptations/Adapting Theories, Kamilla Elliott \ 2. Adaptation and Adaptive Revision: The Problem of Textual Identity, John Bryant \ 3. Dialogizing Adaptation Studies: From One Way Transport to a Dialogic Process, J??rgen Bruhn \ 4. Adaptation as Connection: Transmediality Reconsidered, Regina Schober \ 5. Adaptations within the Field of Media Transformations, Lars Ellestr??m \ 6. Imaginary Museums: Andr?? Bazin, Film Theory and Adaptation, Eirik Frisvold Hanssen \ 7. What Movies Want, Tom Leitch \ Part II: Theorizing the Case-Study \ 8. The Medium Strikes Back: ???Impossible Adaptation' Revisited, Hajnal Kiraly \ 9. 'Pre-Texts': The Notebook Case (Bergman), Anna Sofia Rossholm \ 10. Tracing the Original: The Film Invictus and Based on a True Story Adaptation, Sara Brinch \ 11. What Novels Can Tell That Movies Can't Show, Anne Gjelsvik \ 12. Literature Through Radio: Distance, Silence and Media Archaeology: The War of the Worlds 1938/1898, Jonas Ingvarsson \ Bibliography \ Index.

Jorgen Bruhnis Associate Professor in the School of Language and Literature at Linneaus University, Sweden.

Anne Gjelsvikis Professor of Media Studies at the Norwegian Univeristy of Science and Technology.

Eirik Frisvold Hanssenis Associate Professor of Film Studies alÃ(