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The Drift: Affect, Adaptation, and New Perspectives on Fidelity (Paperback)
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The Drift: Affect, Adaptation, and New Perspectives on Fidelity (Paperback)
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The Drift: Affect, Adaptation, and New Perspectives on Fidelity
offers a new perspective on the complex interrelations between
literature and cinema. It does so by articulating an 'affective
turn' for adaptation studies, a field whose traditional focus has
been the critical castigation of film adaptations of canonical
plays or novels. Drawing on theorists such as Gilles Deleuze, Brian
Massumi, and Marco Abel,the author is able to re-conceive literary
and cinematic works as textual engines generating and circulating
affect, and the adaptive process as a drifting of those affective
intensities from one medium to another. By conceptualizing
adaptation in this manner, the work steers clear of the chimerical
notion of 'fidelity' (to character, to theme, to narrative) which
has anchored so many analyses of adaptive texts over the years-and
the reproving language that inevitably attends it-in favor of more
productive avenues of investigation: What affective work are
certain literary and filmic texts performing? What can this tell
us, more broadly, about the underexplored affective dimensions of
literature and cinema, and the dialogic interactions between them?
The Drift addresses such questions through close, careful readings
which put a variety of realist, modernist, and postmodernist works
into conversation with each other, among them the fiction of John
Dos Passos, Don DeLillo, and Susanna Moore, the films of Dziga
Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein, as well as recent cinematic
adaptations by Jane Campion and Charles Burnett. This
methodological approach, helps to elevate adaptation studies into a
discourse that speaks more directly and pertinently to our fluid,
hypertextual era.
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