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Zusatztext Reviewed in The Year's Work in English Studies, Volume 90 Informationen zum Autor Rachel Carroll is Principal Lecturer and Subject Group Leader in English Studies at the University of Teesside, UK. Klappentext A comprehensive interdisciplinary collection offering a survey of adaptation of literary texts across media including animation, film, TV, fan fiction, biopics and music video. Vorwort A comprehensive interdisciplinary collection offering a survey of adaptation of literary texts across media including animation, film, TV, fan fiction, biopics and music video. Zusammenfassung An interdisciplinary collection offering a survey of adaptation of literary texts across media including animation, film, TV, fan fiction, biopics and music video. It investigates both 'classic' and contemporary texts by British and American authors, from Jane Austen, Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Dickens to Bret Easton Ellis, and P D James. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Textual infidelities, Rachel Carroll (University of Teesside, UK) Part I: Remaking fidelity 2. Heavy bodies, fragile texts: stage adaptation and the problem of presence, Frances Babbage (University of Sheffield, UK) 3. Reflections on the surface: remaking the postmodern with van Sant's Psycho , Catherine Constable (Warwick University, UK) 4. Affecting fidelity: adaptation, fidelity and affect in Todd Haynes's Far From Heaven , Rachel Carroll (University of Teesside, UK) 5. The folding text: Doctor Who , adaptation and fan fiction, Christopher Marlow (University of Lincoln, UK) Part II: After-images 6. 3:10 again: a remade Western and the problem of authenticity, Pete Falconer (Warwick University, UK) 7.Child's play: participation in urban space in Weegee's, Dassin's and Debord's versions of Naked City , Joe Kember (University of Exeter, UK) 8. Charlotte's weblog: media transformation and the intertextual web of children's culture, Cathlena Martin (University of Florida, USA) 9. ‘Stop writing or write like a rat': becoming animal in animated literary adaptations, Paul Wells (Loughborough University, UK) Part III: Reproducing the past 10. Historicising the classic novel adaptation: Bleak House (2005) and British television contexts, Iris Kleinecke-Bates (University of Hull, UK) 11. Embodying Englishness: representations of whiteness, class and Empire in The Secret Garden , Karen Wells (Birkbeck College, UK) 12. Taming the velvet: lesbian identity in cultural adaptations of Tipping the Velvet , Heather Emmens (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada) 13. ‘Who's the daddy?': the aesthetics and politics of representation in Alfonso Cuarón's adaptation of P.D James's Children of Men , Terryl Bacon and Govinda Dickman (University of the West of England, UK) Part IV: Afterlives 14. Origin and ownership: stage, film and television adaptations of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca , Rebecca D'Monté (University of the West of England, UK) 15. The post-feminist biopic: re-telling the past in Iris , The Hours and Sylvia , Josephine Dolan, Suzy Gordon and Estella Tincknell (University of the West of England, UK) 16. For the love of Jane: Austen, adaptation and celebrity, Brenda R. Weber (Indiana University, USA) 17. Glamorama , cinematic narrative and contemporary fiction, Ruth Helyer (University of Teesside, UK) Index ...
