Theorizing Adaptation

The first cross-disciplinary history of theorizing adaptation, Theorizing Adaptation covers the full history of the topic and finds shared ground upon which adaptation scholars can dialogue and debate productively across disciplinary, cultural, and theoretical borders.

List of contents

• Introduction: The Problem of Theorizing Adaptation


• Part 1: Theorizing Adaptation


• Chapter 1 Histories of Theorizing Adaptation


• Chapter 2 Theorizing Adaptation in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries


• Chapter 3 Theorizing Adaptation in the Twentieth Century


• Chapter 4 Theorizing Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century


• Part 2: Adapting Theorization


• I. Retheorizing Theorization


• Chapter 5 Redefining Definitions


• Chapter 6 Resetting Taxonomies


• Chapter 7 Rethinking Theoretical Principles


• II. Refiguring Theorization


• Chapter 8 The Rhetoric of Theorizing Adaption


• Chapter 9 Refiguring Adaptation Studies


• Conclusion


• Bibliography

About the author

Kamilla Elliott is Professor of Literature and Media at Lancaster University.

Summary

The first cross-disciplinary history of theorizing adaptation, Theorizing Adaptation covers the full history of the topic and finds shared ground upon which adaptation scholars can dialogue and debate productively across disciplinary, cultural, and theoretical borders.

Additional text

This is the most ambitious and exciting book about adaptation Ive ever read. Kamilla Elliott, long established as an unrivaled historian of adaptation and adaptation studies, here confirms her status as their leading theorist as well. Theorizing Adaptation will be indispensable reading for anyone attempting to take the measure of adaptation studies.

Product details

• Authors: Kamilla Elliott, Kamilla (Professor of Literature and Medi Elliott, Elliott Kamilla
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780197511183
• ISBN: 978-0-19-751118-3
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, Television, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Films, cinema, Film, TV & radio, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General