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The Adaptation Industry - The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation (Hardcover)
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The Adaptation Industry - The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
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Adaptation constitutes the driving force of contemporary culture,
with stories adapted across an array of media formats. However,
adaptation studies has been concerned almost exclusively with
textual analysis, in particular with compare-and-contrast studies
of individual novel and film pairings. This has left almost
completely unexamined crucial questions of how adaptations come to
be made, what are the industries with the greatest stake in making
them, and who the decision-makers are in the adaptation process.
The Adaptation Industry re-imagines adaptation not as an abstract
process, but as a material industry. It presents the adaptation
industry as a cultural economy of six interlocking institutions,
stakeholders and decision-makers all engaged in the actual business
of adapting texts: authors; agents; publishers; book prize
committees; scriptwriters; and screen producers and distributors.
Through trading in intellectual property rights to cultural works,
these six nodal points in the adaptation network are tightly
interlinked, with success for one party potentially auguring for
success in other spheres. But marked rivalries between these
institutional forces also exist, with competition characterizing
every aspect of the adaptation process. This book constructs an
overdue sociology of contemporary literary adaptation, never losing
sight of the material and institutional dimensions of this powerful
process.
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