Adaptation Before Cinema - Literary and Visual Convergence from Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)

Adaptation Before Cinema highlights a range of pre-cinematic media forms, including theater, novelization, painting and illustration, transmedia art, children's media, and other literary and visual culture. The book expands the primary scholarly audience of adaptation studies from film and media scholars to literary scholars and cultural critics working across a range of historical periods, genres, forms, and media. In doing so, it underscores the creative diversity of cultural adaptation practiced before cinema came to dominate the critical conversation on adaptation. Collectively, the chapters construct critical bridges between literary history and contemporary media studies, foregrounding diverse practices of adaptation and providing a platform for innovative critical approaches to adaptation, appropriation, or transmedia storytelling popular from the Middle Ages through the invention of cinema. At the same time, they illustrate how these forms of adaptation not only influenced the cinematic adaptation industry of the twentieth century but also continue to inform adaptation practices in the twenty-first century transmedia landscape. Written by scholars with expertise in historical, literary, and cultural scholarship ranging from the medieval period through the nineteenth century, the chapters use discourses developed in contemporary adaptation studies to shed new lights on their respective historical fields, authors, and art forms.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
Release date:	February 2023
First published:	2023
Editors:	Lissette Lopez Szwydky • Glenn Jellenik
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	314
Edition:	1st ed. 2023
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-109595-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > General Promotions
LSN:	3-03-109595-2
Barcode:	9783031095955

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