| Adaptations: From Text to Screen, Screen to Text UK Edition Contributor(s): Cartmell, Deborah (Editor), Whelehan, Imelda (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415167388 ISBN-13: 9780415167383 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $46.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1999 Annotation: What happens when Jane Austen's "Emma" becomes the big screen's "Clueless"? How does "Batman" the comic book translate into a cartoon, television show, and film? With contributions from some of the finest film scholars in the world, "Adaptations" looks at what happens to popular texts when they are transformed into an entirely different medium, including novel and comic book to screen and an innovative look at screen to novel. Wide-ranging and innovative in its approach, "Adaptations" is a trenchant look at how a story changes--successfully or not--in all its mediums: novel, film, comic book, cartoon, and television. Contributors: Julian North, Esther Sonnet, Roger Bromley, Pat Kirkham, Sally Warren, Nicholas Zurbrugg, Mark Rawlinson, Derek Paget, Sharon Ouditt, Ken Gelder, Ina Rae Hark, Will Brooker, Paul Wells. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - Screenwriting |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| LCCN: 98-49576 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.17" W x 9.19" (1.10 lbs) 266 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Adaptations considers the theoretical and practical difficulties surrounding the translation of a text into film, and the reverse process; the novelisation of films. Through three sets of case studies, the contributors examine the key debates surrounding adaptations: whether screen versions of literary classics can be faithful to the text; if something as capsulated as Jane Austens irony can even be captured on film; whether costume dramas always of their own time and do adaptations remake their parent text to reflect contemporary ideas and concerns. Tracing the complex alterations which texts experience between different media, Adaptations is a unique exploration of the relationship between text and film. |