Adaptation And Other Essays

Author : Michelle MacArthur,Lydia Wilkinson,Keren Zaiontz
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443809351

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Performing Adaptations by Michelle MacArthur,Lydia Wilkinson,Keren Zaiontz Pdf

Performing Adaptations: Conversations and Essays on the Theory and Practice of Adaptation brings together scholars and artists from across North America and the United Kingdom to contribute to the growing discourse on adaptation in the arts. An ideal text for students of theatre, drama, and performance studies, this volume offers a ground-breaking set of essays, interviews, and artistic reflections that assess adaptation from the perspective of live performance, an aspect of the field that has been under-explored until now. The diverse authors and interview subjects in this anthology take a variety of approaches to both creating and analyzing adaptations, demonstrating the form’s suitability for testing and speaking back to dominant models of creation, production, and analysis. Featuring articles by pioneering adaptation scholar Linda Hutcheon and critically acclaimed writer and critic George Elliott Clarke, Performing Adaptations advances the field of adaptation studies in new and exciting ways. The authors in Performing Adaptations do not comprise a comprehensive view of adaptation studies, but represent a collection of “gutsy” voices that use adaptation to test, and speak back to dominant models of creation, production, and analysis. Some of these perspectives include a group of artists from the African Diaspora, Europe, and Canada (the AfriCan Theatre Ensemble); the voice of Chinese-Canadian playwright, Marjorie Chan; the innovative storytelling of Beth Watkins, and her adaptation of letters written by transgendered student activist, Jesse Carr; the views of vanguard Canadian queer filmmaker, John Greyson; and African-Canadian poet, novelist, and critic, George Elliott Clarke. Their adaptation of sources to other genres, mediums, and cultural contexts represent the act of a radical, dialogical reading, writ large.

Author : Subrata Chakrabarti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : UOM:39015029158436

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Adaptation and Other Essays by Subrata Chakrabarti Pdf

Author : Laurence Raw,Defne Ersin Tutan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476600581

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The Adaptation of History by Laurence Raw,Defne Ersin Tutan Pdf

This collection of essays asks the question "What is history?" and considers how history is shaped in different socioeconomic contexts. The writers take a transdisciplinary approach, in the belief that everyone who deals with history--including professional historians, novelists, and poets--constructs narratives of the past to make sense of the present as well as to determine their future courses of action. With contributions from a variety of specialists in media studies, literature, history and anthropology, this book breaks new ground in adaptation studies.

Author : Phyllis Frus,Christy Williams
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786455782

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Beyond Adaptation by Phyllis Frus,Christy Williams Pdf

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.

Author : Dr Caroline Ruddell,Dr Cian Duffy,Dr Peter Howell
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472414120

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Romantic Adaptations by Dr Caroline Ruddell,Dr Cian Duffy,Dr Peter Howell Pdf

How did romanticism define its relationship with its sources? How has romanticism since been understood and misunderstood across a range of cultural activities? These are among the questions taken up in this reexamination of the place of adaptation within romanticism. Renegotiating the cultural topography of the period and the place of romanticism in subsequent cultural history, the volume focuses on the adaptation of source material by romantic writers and the adaptation in subsequent periods of the tropes and ideologies associated with romanticism. In place of a hierarchical distinction between source and text, between ‘romanticism’ and its contexts, the collection identifies distinct but overlapping and mutually constitutive genres such as the Gothic and romance. Whether their essays deal with early nineteenth-century periodical reviews, affordable editions of Pride and Prejudice aimed at the late nineteenth-century mass audience, or the ongoing cultural presence of romanticism in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century debates about embryology and stem cell research, the contributors remain cognizant of the tension between the processes of adaptation and the apparent ideology of romantic originality.

Author : Vera Gubnitskaia
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781476633176

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The Relevant Library by Vera Gubnitskaia Pdf

 At a time when libraries are no longer the leading proprietors of information, many library professionals find themselves rethinking their purpose. In this collection of new essays, contributors share their experiences and ideas for keeping libraries integral to changing communities. Innovative approaches and best practices are discussed for strategic planning, packaging, branding and marketing, funding issues, physical spaces, collection needs and trends, partnerships, programming and services, professional education, and staffing.

Author : Pamela Demory
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030053062

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Queer/Adaptation by Pamela Demory Pdf

This collection of essays illuminates the intersection of queer and adaptation. Both adaptation and queerness suffer from the stereotype of being secondary: to identify something as an adaptation is to recognize it in relation to something else that seems more original, more authentic. Similarly, to identify something as queer is to place it in relation to what is assumed to be “normal” or “straight.” This ground-breaking volume brings together fifteen original essays that critically challenge these assumptions about originality, authenticity, and value. The volume is organized in three parts: The essays in Part I examine what happens when an adaptation queers its source text and explore the role of the author/screenwriter/director in making those choices. The essays in Part II look at what happens when filmmakers push against boundaries of various kinds: time and space, texts and bodies, genres and formats. And the essays in Part III explore adaptations whose source texts cannot be easily pinned down, where there are multiple adaptations, and where the adaptation process itself is queer. The book includes discussion of a wide variety of texts, including opera, classic film, genre fiction, documentary, musicals, literary fiction, low-budget horror, camp classics, and experimental texts, providing a comprehensive and interdisciplinary introduction to the myriad ways in which queer and adaptation overlap.

Author : David Francis Urrows
Publisher : Brill
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822037242906

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Essays on Word/music Adaptation and on Surveying the Field by David Francis Urrows Pdf

The twelve essays presented in this volume are drawn from the Fifth International Conference on Word and Music Studies held at Santa Barbara, CA, in 2005. The conference was organized and sponsored by The International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA) and in its central section explored the theme of "Word/Music Adaptation". In these wide-ranging papers, a great variety of cases of intermedial transposition between music, literature, drama and film are examined. The music of Berlioz, Biber, Chopin, Carlisle Floyd, Robert Franz, Bernard Herrmann, Liszt, Richard Strauss, Verdi, and pop singer Kate Bush confronts and commingles with the writings of Emily Brontë, Goethe, Nancy Huston, George Sand, and Shakespeare in these cutting-edge adaptation studies. In addition, four films are discussed: Wuthering Heights, Fedora, Otello, and The Notebook. The articles collected will be of interest not only to music and literary scholars, but also to those engaged in the study of adaptation theory, semiotics, literary criticism, narrative theory, art history, feminism or postmodernism.

Author : David L. Kranz,Nancy C. Mellerski
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124042289

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In/fidelity by David L. Kranz,Nancy C. Mellerski Pdf

Under the skin : adapting novels for the screen / Robin Swicord -- Julie Taymor's Titus : visualizing Shakespeare's language on screen / Karen Williams -- Celluloid satire, or the moviemaker as moralist : Mira Nair's adaptation of Thackeray's Vanity fair / Micael M. Clarke -- "Like an angel in a jungle" : God's angry woman in Ron Howard's The missing / Robert E. Meyer -- Outside the source : credit sequences in Spike Lee's Malcolm X and 25th hour / Sarah Keller -- Kubrick, Douglas, and the authorship of Paths of glory / James Naremore -- The small-town Scarlet letter (1934) / Laurence Raw -- Play is the thing : Shakespearean improvisation in The Salton Sea / Noel Sloboda -- Imaging subjects and imagining bodies : T.E. Lawrence's Seven pillars of wisdom and David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia / Alison Patterson -- A la recherche d'une femme perdue : Proust through the lens of Chantal Akerman's La captive / Ian Olney -- Adaptations as an undecidable : fidelity and binarity from Bluestone to Derrida / Rochelle Hurst -- Panel presentations and discussion : "The persistence of fidelity." The nature of film translation : literal, traditional, and radical / Linda Costanzo ; The golden continuum of probability / David L. Kranz ; Fidelity discourse : its cause and cure / Thomas Leitch ; A tale of two potters / Walter Metz.

Author : R. C. Newell
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483162973

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Adaptation to Environment by R. C. Newell Pdf

Adaptation to Environment: Essays on the Physiology of Marine Animals contains a series of essays that is intended as a review of the special adaptations of marine organisms to the particular environmental conditions they are likely to encounter in the natural habitat. This book emphasizes developments in physiology of marine animals and on approaches to the study of the adaptations of marine organisms. This compilation also interprets the term “Physiology in its widest sense to include all aspects of the functioning of the organism from the behavior of animals to the mode of function of enzymes. For this reason, structural adaptations have been reviewed in detail only where their functional role is understood and where they constitute a specific adaptation to defined environmental conditions. This publication benefits students and individuals conducting research on the physiology of marine animals.

Author : Anna Gural-Migdal,Robert Singer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786421152

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Zola and Film by Anna Gural-Migdal,Robert Singer Pdf

French novelist Emile Zola, noted for his championship of the Naturalist novel, has been one of the most adapted authors in world literature. There have been approximately 80 film adaptations of his late 19th century novels and short stories, many of which occurred during the silent era of international film production (1895-1927). While the aesthetic elements of Zola's fiction continue to appeal to international cinema, the author's thematic naturalism and his "scientific methodology" have provided an ideological framework that incorporates art, science and history into the many cinematic adaptations of his work. This collection of essays, contributed by scholars of French literature and film, explores the dynamic relationship between Zola's fiction and its film adaptations, examining critically significant cinematic adaptations of Zola's novels from a variety of theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives. The 13 essays discuss the adaptation of Zola's works within the limitations of the silent cinema; the challenges posed by film censorship and the notoriety of the author's naturalist text; the ideological inflection given to Zola's working class narratives; and Zola's representation of women. Zola's works are placed within their respective historical contexts, as the essays address encoded anti-Nazi sentiment in films produced under the German occupation of France during World War II and the French Communist Party's reception of the filmic adaptation of Germinal. Other adapted works addressed in these chapters include La Terre, Nana, La Bete humaine, Au Bonheur des Dames, Therese Raquin, Gervaise and Pot-Bouille.

Author : Lynnette Porter
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476600574

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Sherlock Holmes for the 21st Century by Lynnette Porter Pdf

The 21st century is a good time to be Sherlock Holmes. He stars in the Guy Ritchie films, with Robert Downey, Jr.; an internationally popular BBC television series featuring Benedict Cumberbatch; a novel sanctioned by the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate; and dozens of additional novels and short stories, including two by Neil Gaiman. Add to this the videogames, comic books, and fan-created works, plus a potent Internet and social media presence. Holmes' London has become a prime destination for cinematic tourists. The evidence is clearly laid out in this collection of 14 new essays: Holmes and Watson are more popular than ever. The detective has been portrayed as hero, and antihero. He's tech savvy, and scientifically detached--even psychologically aberrant. He has been romantically linked to The Woman and bromantically to Watson. Whether Victorian or modern, he continues to fascinate. These essays explain why he is destined to be with us for years to come. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Paul K. Longmore
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 159213775X

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Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability by Paul K. Longmore Pdf

'Personal inclination made me a historian. Personal encounter with public policy made me an activist.'

Author : Pieter Cornelis Kuiper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Psychoanalysis
ISBN : UOM:39015016247523

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On Being Genuine, and Other Essays by Pieter Cornelis Kuiper Pdf

Author : Adele Perry,Esyllt W. Jones,Leah Morton
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887554339

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Place and Replace by Adele Perry,Esyllt W. Jones,Leah Morton Pdf

Place and Replace is a collection of recent interdisciplinary research into Western Canada that calls attention to the multiple political, social, and cultural labours performed by the concept of “place.” The book continues a long-standing tradition of situating questions of place at the centre of analyses of Western Canada’s cultures, pasts, and politics, while making clear that place is never stable, universal, or static. The essays here confirm the interests and priorities of Western Canadian scholarship that have emerged over the past forty years and remind us of the importance of Indigenous peoples, dispossession, and colonialism; of migration, race and ethnicity; of gender and women’s experiences; of the impact of the natural and built environment; and the impact of politics and the state.