Adaptation in Visual Culture

Images, Texts, and Their Multiple Worlds

Julie Grossman, R. Barton Palmer, Julie Grossman, R. Barton Palmer

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783319585796
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319585802
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Art Theory & Criticism

This book gathers together essays written by leading scholars of adaptation studies to explore the full range of practices and issues currently of concern in the field. The chapters demonstrate how content and messaging are shared across an increasing number of platforms, whose interrelationships have become as intriguing as they are complex. Recognizing that a signature feature of contemporary culture is the convergence of different forms of media, the contributors of this book argue that adaptation studies has emerged as a key discipline that, unlike traditional literary and art criticism, is capable of identifying and analyzing the relations between source texts and adaptations created from them. Adaptation scholars have come to understand that these relations not only play out in individual case histories but are also institutional, and this collection shows how adaptation plays a key role in the functioning of cinema, television, art, and print media. The volume is essential reading for all those interested both in adaptation studies and also in the complex forms of intermediality that define contemporary culture in the 21st century.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Contents
• Editors and Contributors
• List of Figures
• Part I Rethinking the Field
• Film Novelization
• What Can Adaptation Studies Learn from Fan Studies?
• The Task of the Adaptation Critic
• Mind the Gaps
• Continuation, Adaptation Studies, and the Never-Finished Text
• Unfilmable Books
• A Dickensian Feast: Visual Culture and Television Aesthetics
• Star Adaptations: Queen Biopics of the 1930s
• Part II New Directions, Case Histories
• Between a Sequel and a Market Crash: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
• Dissolving Media Boundaries: The Interaction of Literature, Film, and Television in Tender Is the Night (1985)
• Fargos
• Alfred in Wonderland: Hitchcock Through the Looking-Glass
• Japanese Avant-garde and the Moga (“Modern Girl”)
• The Worlds of Downton Abbey
• Index