Next Generation Adaptation

Spectatorship and Process

Allen H. Redmon

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781496832610, 9781496832603
• eBook ISBN: 9781496832627
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film History & Criticism

Contributions by Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth, Marc DiPaolo, Emine Akkülah Do?an, Caroline Eades, Noelle Hedgcock, Tina Olsin Lent, Rashmila Maiti, Allen H. Redmon, Jack Ryan, Larry T. Shillock, Richard Vela, and Geoffrey Wilson In Next Generation Adaptation: Spectatorship and Process, editor Allen H. Redmon brings together eleven essays from a range of voices in adaptation studies. This anthology explores the political and ethical contexts of specific adaptations and, by extension, the act of adaptation itself. Grounded in questions of gender, genre, and race, these investigations focus on the ways attention to these categories renegotiates the rules of power, privilege, and principle that shape the contexts that seemingly produce and reproduce them. Contributors to the volume examine such adaptations as Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past, Taylor Sheridan's Sicario and Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Jean-Jacques Annaud's Wolf Totem, Spike Lee's He's Got Game, and Jim Jarmusch's Paterson. Each chapter considers the expansive dialogue adaptations accelerate when they realize their capacity to bring together two or more texts, two or more peoples, two or more ideologies without allowing one expression to erase another. Building on the growing trends in adaptation studies, these essays explore the ways filmic texts experienced as adaptations highlight ethical or political concerns and argue that spectators are empowered to explore implications being raised by the adaptations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction: Introducing the Next Generation of Adaptation
• Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson: Poetry, Place, and Cinematic Form
• Carnivalized Adaptations of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray on Screen
• Into the Future from Out of the Past: Double Binds, Double Crosses, and Ethical Choice
• “Acting Victorian”: Marketing Stars and Reimagining the Victorian in Classical Hollywood
• Ruthless Ram and Sexual Sita: Alternate Readings of the Ramayana
• “Both in and out of the Game, and Watching and Wondering at It:” Whitmanic Currents and Complications in He Got Game and “I, Too”
• Wolf Totem by Jean-Jacques Annaud: Turning a Chinese Novel into a Transnational Film
• Adaptation, Authenticity, and Ethics in Carl Davis’s Score to The Thief of Bagdad
• Sicarios and the Latin American Assassin on Film
• Media Portrayals of the Woman Suffrage Movement: Reconstructing a Usable Past
• #MeToo and the Filmmaker as Monster: John Landis, Quentin Tarantino, and the Allegorically Confessional Horror Film
• Contributors