The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies

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. His most recent books are Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age and A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock, coedited with Leland Poague.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Notes on ContributorsThomas Leitch, Introduction
I. Foundations of Adaptation Study1. 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 Ephemerality4. Dennis Cutchins, Bakhtin, Intertextuality, and Adaptation5. David T. Johnson, Adaptation and Fidelity 6. Mar H. Snyder, Adaptation in Theory and Practice: Mending the Imaginary Fence
II. Adapting the Classics7. Wendy Zierler, Midrashic Adaptation: The Ever-Growing Torah of Moses 8. Dennis Perry, The Recombinant Mystery of Frankenstein: Experiments in Film Adaptation9. 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 Elegy12. William B. Jones, Jr., Classics Illustrated and the Evolving Art of Comic-Book Literary Adaptation
III. Adapting the Commons13. Robert Stam, Revisionist Adaptation: Transtextuality, Cross-Cultural Dialogism, and Performative Infidelities14. Lucia Krämer, Adaptation in Bollywood15. Constantine Verevis, Remakes, Sequels, Prequels 16. Eckart Voigts, Recombinant Adaptation: Remix, Mashup, Parody
IV. Adaptation and Genre17. Linda and Michael Hutcheon, Adaptation and Opera18. 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 Telenovelas21. 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 Legacy23. 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 Intertextuality26. Claus Clüver, Ekphrasis and Adaptation 27. Kate Newell, Adaptation and Illustration: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach28. 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 Disciplines32. 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 Adaptation36. Marty Gould, Teaching Adaptation37. Keith Wilhite, Adaptation and Revision38. Peter Lev, How to Write Adaptation History39. Kamilla Elliott, Adaptation Theory and Adaptation Scholarship 40. Thomas Leitch, Against Conclusions: Petit Theories and Adaptation Studies