Beyond Adaptation
Essays on Radical Transformations of Original Works
Published on 15. March 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
226 pages
978-0-7864-4223-2 (ISBN)
Description
Some film and novel revisions go so far beyond adaptation that they demand a new designation. This critical collection explores movies, plays, essays, comics and video games that supersede adaptation to radically transform their original sources. Fifteen essays investigate a variety of texts that rework everything from literary classics to popular children's books, demonstrating how these new, stand-alone creations critically engage their sources and contexts. Particular attention is paid to parody, intertextuality, and fairy-tale transformations in the examination of these works, which occupy a unique narrative and creative space.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
notes, bibliographies, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
377 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-4223-2 (9780786442232)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Phyllis Frus is an associate professor of English and chair of the English department at Hawai'i Pacific University. Christy Williams is an instructor of English at Hawai'i Pacific University and a doctoral candidate at the University of Hawai'i. She lives in Honolulu.
Content
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Making the Case for Transformation
1. Borrowing a Melody: Jane Campion's The Piano and Intertextuality
PHYLLIS FRUS
2. Adaptation, The Orchid Thief, and the Subversion of Hollywood Conventions
DEVIN HARNER
3. Historical Figures Transformed: Free Enterprise and I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
MARNI GAUTHIER
4. Post-Colonial Transformation: The Rejection of English in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi
ANNE M. REEF
5. Transforming Great Expectations: Dickens, Cuaron, and the Bildungsroman
ANTJE S. ANDERSON
6. A Fuller Statement of the Case: Mary Reilly and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
LAURIE F. LEACH
7. Transforming Shakespeare: Neil Gaiman and The Sandman
JULIA ROUND
8. On the Trail of the Butterfly: D. H. Hwang and Transformation
DEBORAH L. ROSS
9. Wicked and Wonderful Witches: Narrative and Gender Negotiations from The Wizard of Oz to Wicked
ALISSA BURGER
10. "Wonderland's become quite strange": From Lewis Carroll's Alice to American McGee's Alice
CATHLENA MARTIN
11. Stories to Live By: Re-Framing Storytelling in the Arabian Nights Miniseries
JENNIFER ORME
12. Mulan: Disney's Hybrid Heroine
LAN DONG
13. Mass-Marketing "Beauty": How a Feminist Heroine Became an Insipid Disney Princess
MARC DIPAOLO
14. Four Times Upon a Time: "Snow White" Retold
STELLA BOLAKI
15. Mermaid Tales on Screen: Splash, The Little Mermaid, and Aquamarine
CHRISTY WILLIAMS
About the Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Making the Case for Transformation
1. Borrowing a Melody: Jane Campion's The Piano and Intertextuality
PHYLLIS FRUS
2. Adaptation, The Orchid Thief, and the Subversion of Hollywood Conventions
DEVIN HARNER
3. Historical Figures Transformed: Free Enterprise and I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
MARNI GAUTHIER
4. Post-Colonial Transformation: The Rejection of English in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi
ANNE M. REEF
5. Transforming Great Expectations: Dickens, Cuaron, and the Bildungsroman
ANTJE S. ANDERSON
6. A Fuller Statement of the Case: Mary Reilly and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
LAURIE F. LEACH
7. Transforming Shakespeare: Neil Gaiman and The Sandman
JULIA ROUND
8. On the Trail of the Butterfly: D. H. Hwang and Transformation
DEBORAH L. ROSS
9. Wicked and Wonderful Witches: Narrative and Gender Negotiations from The Wizard of Oz to Wicked
ALISSA BURGER
10. "Wonderland's become quite strange": From Lewis Carroll's Alice to American McGee's Alice
CATHLENA MARTIN
11. Stories to Live By: Re-Framing Storytelling in the Arabian Nights Miniseries
JENNIFER ORME
12. Mulan: Disney's Hybrid Heroine
LAN DONG
13. Mass-Marketing "Beauty": How a Feminist Heroine Became an Insipid Disney Princess
MARC DIPAOLO
14. Four Times Upon a Time: "Snow White" Retold
STELLA BOLAKI
15. Mermaid Tales on Screen: Splash, The Little Mermaid, and Aquamarine
CHRISTY WILLIAMS
About the Contributors
Index