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provides an enumerated list of current issues facing adaptation theory. So what is an adaptation? Put simply, it is when a text is interpreted from one media system to another, such as parody, format change (production of a text in another media, or updating, like in the case of Julie Taymor’s Titus), and remakes. Adaptation theory is the study
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Apr 5, 2017 · This introduction begins by tracing the history of adaptation studies as a series of evolutionary phases defined more by their critique of the previous paradigms of fidelity, medium specificity, and intertextuality than by their uncritical embrace of new paradigms.
Apr 5, 2017 · This collection of forty original essays reflects on the history of adaptation studies, surveys the current state of the field, and maps out possible futures that mobilize its unparalleled ability to bring together theorists and practitioners in different modes of discourse.
Apr 5, 2017 · Chapter 5 is an introduction to one of the most contentious concepts in adaptation studies: fidelity, or the idea that a given aesthetic object—traditionally, in adaptation studies, a film—reflects a faithful understanding of its source—traditionally, a literary text, especially a novel, play, or short story.
Jan 20, 2023 · To that end, this collection brings together the study of literature, theater and performing arts, film and television, and visual arts, synthesized through historically situated, theoretical approaches to adaptation and transmedia storytelling across forms and media.
Sep 29, 2014 · The earliest work on adaptation, from Vachel Lindsay’s The Art of the Moving Picture, first published in 1915, to André Bazin’s “Adaptation, or the Cinema as Digest,” first published in 1948, grapples with the general relationship between literature and cinema as presentational modes.
Contemporary Adaptation Theory. What could be more audacious than to argue that the study of moving images as adaptations of literary works, one of the very first shelters under which cin ema studies originally entered the academy, has been neglected?
