Theory of Adaptation

Name: Theory of Adaptation
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ISBN: 9780415539388

ISBN-10: 0415539382

ISBN-13: 9780415539388

Edition: 2nd 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Linda Hutcheon

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A Theory of Adaptationexplores 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 parks, analysing the breadth, scope and creative possibilities within each.This new edition is supplemented by a new preface from the author, discussing both new adaptive forms/platforms and recent critical developments in the study of adaptation. It also features an illuminating new epilogue from Siobhan O’Flynn, focusing on adaptation in the context of digital media. She considers the impact of…

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List price: $42.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 7/18/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 274
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



List of illustrations


Preface to the first edition


Preface to the second edition


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 ←→ Showing


Showing ←→ Showing


Interacting ←→ Telling or Showing


Clichï¿½ #1


Clichï¿½ #2


Clichï¿½ #3


Clichï¿½ #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


Indenization


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?


Epilogue


References


Index