OHB ADAPTATION STUDIES OHBK C

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.

Thomas Leitch is Professor of English at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to Passion of the Christ, and the coeditor of the forthcoming A Companion to Hitchcock Studies.

- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Notes on Contributors
- Thomas Leitch, Introduction
- I. Foundations of Adaptation Study
- 1. Timothy Corrigan, Defining Adaptation
- 2. Glenn Jellenik, On the Origins of Adaptation, as Such: The Birth of a Simple Abstraction
- 3. Renata Kobetts Miller, Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Adaptations of Novels: The Paradox of Ephemerality
- 4. Dennis Cutchins, Bakhtin, Intertextuality, and Adaptation
- 5. David T. Johnson, Adaptation and Fidelity
- 6. Mar H. Snyder, Adaptation in Theory and Practice: Mending the Imaginary Fence
- II. Adapting the Classics
- 7. Wendy Zierler, Midrashic Adaptation: The Ever-Growing Torah of Moses
- 8. Dennis Perry, The Recombinant Mystery of Frankenstein: Experiments in Film Adaptation
- 9. Eirik Frisvold Hanssen, Silent Ghosts on the Screen: Adapting Ibsen in the 1910s
- 10. Mieke Bal, Intership: Anachronism Between Loyalty and the Case
- 11. Jack Boozer, The Intratextuality of Film Adaptation: From The Dying Animal to Elegy
- 12. William B. Jones, Jr., Classics Illustrated and the Evolving Art of Comic-Book Literary Adaptation
- III. Adapting the Commons
- 13. Robert Stam, Revisionist Adaptation: Transtextuality, Cross-Cultural Dialogism, and Performative Infidelities
- 14. Lucia Krämer, Adaptation in Bollywood
- 15. Constantine Verevis, Remakes, Sequels, Prequels
- 16. Eckart Voigts, Recombinant Adaptation: Remix, Mashup, Parody
- IV. Adaptation and Genre
- 17. Linda and Michael Hutcheon, Adaptation and Opera
- 18. Mike Ingham, Popular Song and Adaptation
- 19. Richard Hand, Radio Adaptation
- 20. Stijn Joye, Daniël Biltereyst, and Fien Adriaens, Telenovelas and/as Adaptations: Reflections on Local Adaptations of Global Telenovelas
- 21. Álvaro Hattnher, Zombies Are Everywhere: The Many Adaptations of a Subgenre
- 22. Wendy Siuyi Wong, The History of Hong Kong Comics in Film Adaptations: An Accidental Legacy
- 23. Dan Hassler-Forest, Roads Not Taken in Hollywood's Comic Book Movie Industry: Popeye, Dick Tracy, and Hulk
- 24. I.Q. Hunter, Adaptation XXX
- 25. Kevin M. Flanagan, Videogame Adaptation
- V. Adaptation and Intertextuality
- 26. Claus Clüver, Ekphrasis and Adaptation
- 27. Kate Newell, Adaptation and Illustration: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach
- 28. Laurence Raw, Aligning Adaptation Studies with Translation Studies
- 29. Lars Elleström, Adaptation and Intermediality
- 30. Marie-Laure Ryan, Transmedia Storytelling as Narrative Practice
- 31. Kyle Meikle, Adaptation and Interactivity
- VI. Adaptation Across Disciplines
- 32. Petr Bubenícek, Politics and Adaptation: The Case of Jan Hus
- 33. Defne Ursin Tutan, Adaptation and History
- 34. Brian Boyd, Making Adaptation Studies Adaptive
- 35. Nico Dicecco, The Aura of Againness: Performing Adaptation
- VII. Professing Adaptation
- 36. Marty Gould, Teaching Adaptation
- 37. Keith Wilhite, Adaptation and Revision
- 38. Peter Lev, How to Write Adaptation History
- 39. Kamilla Elliott, Adaptation Theory and Adaptation Scholarship
- 40. Thomas Leitch, Against Conclusions: Petit Theories and Adaptation Studies