This collection of forty new essays, written by the leading
scholars in adaptation studies and distinguished contributors from
outside the field, is the most comprehensive volume on adaptation
ever published. Written to appeal alike to specialists in
adaptation, scholars in allied fields, and general readers, it
hearkens back to the foundations of adaptation studies a century
and more ago, surveys its ferment of activity over the past twenty
years, and looks forward to the future. It considers the very
different problems in adapting the classics, from the Bible to
Frankenstein to Philip Roth, and the commons, from online mashups
and remixes to adult movies. It surveys a dizzying range of
adaptations around the world, from Latin American telenovelas to
Czech cinema, from Hong Kong comics to Classics Illustrated, from
Bollywood to zombies, and explores the ways media as different as
radio, opera, popular song, and videogames have handled adaptation.
Going still further, it examines the relations between adaptation
and such intertextual practices as translation, illustration,
prequels, sequels, remakes, intermediality, and transmediality. The
volume's contributors consider the similarities and differences
between adaptation and history, adaptation and performance,
adaptation and revision, and textual and biological adaptation,
casting an appreciative but critical eye on the theory and practice
of adaptation scholars-and, occasionally, each other. The Oxford
Handbook of Adaptation Studies offers specific suggestions for how
to read, teach, create, and write about adaptations in order to
prepare for a world in which adaptation, already ubiquitous, is
likely to become ever more important.
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