Theory of Adaptation

Name: Theory of Adaptation
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ISBN: 9780415967945

ISBN-10: 0415967945

ISBN-13: 9780415967945

Edition: 2006

Authors: Linda Hutcheon

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Are we living in the age of adaptation? In contemporary cinema, of course, there are enough adaptations --based on everything from comic books to the novels of Jane Austen--to make us wonder if Hollywood has run out of new stories. But if you think adaptation can be understood by using novels and films alone, you're wrong. Today there are also song covers rising up the pop charts, video game versions of fairy tales, and even roller coasters based on successful movie franchises. Despite their popularity, however, adaptations are usually treated as secondary and derivative. Whether in the form of a Broadway musical or a hit television show, adaptations are almost inevitably regarded as…

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List price: $131.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/13/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034



Preface


Acknowledgments



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



What? (Forms)


Medium Specificity Revisited


Telling [left arrow] [right arrow] Showing


Showing [left arrow] [right arrow] Showing


Interacting [left arrow] [right arrow] Telling or Showing


Cliche #1


Cliche #2


Cliche #3


Cliche #4


Learning from Practice



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



How? (Audiences)


The Pleasures of Adaptation


Knowing and Unknowing Audiences


Modes of Engagement Revisited


Kinds and Degrees of Immersion



Where? When? (Contexts)


The Vastness of Context


Transcultural Adaptation


Indigenization


Learning from Practice


Why Carmen?


The Carmen Story-and Stereotype


Indigenizing Carmen



Final Questions


What Is Not an Adaptation?


What Is the Appeal of Adaptations?


References


Index