Embodying adaptation: character and the body / Christina Wilkins.
2022
PN1995.9.C36
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Title
Embodying adaptation: character and the body / Christina Wilkins.
Author
Wilkins, Christina.
ISBN
9783031085338 (electronic bk.)
3031085337 (electronic bk.)
3031085329
9783031085321
3031085337 (electronic bk.)
3031085329
9783031085321
Publication Details
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language
English
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Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-08533-8 doi
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PN1995.9.C36
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.436
Summary
This book explores the impact of the body on the mediation of character in adaptations. Specifically, it thinks about how identity is shaped by the body and how this alters meanings of adaptations. With an increasingly digital world, the importance of the body may be seen as diminishing. However, the book highlights the different political and social meanings the body signifies, which in turn renders character. Through a discussion of adaptations of sexuality, race, and mental difference, the mediation of character is shown to be tied to the physical. The book challenges the hierarchies in place both for the understanding of character, which privileges the actor, and in adaptations, which privileges the original. The discussion of the body, character, and adaptation asserts that the meanings the physical has in its shaping of, and by, character in adaptations reflect the way in which we position our own bodies in the world. Christina Wilkins, University of Birmingham, UK. Christina Wilkins has written on adaptations, identity, nostalgia, and popular culture. She currently lectures at the University of Birmingham.
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Palgrave studies in adaptation and visual culture, 2634-6303
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1:Introduction
Chapter 2:The Acting Body
Chapter 3:Bodily Knowledge
Chapter 4:Character Infusion
Chapter 5:Embodying Identities
Chapter 6:Shaping the Psyche.
Chapter 2:The Acting Body
Chapter 3:Bodily Knowledge
Chapter 4:Character Infusion
Chapter 5:Embodying Identities
Chapter 6:Shaping the Psyche.