The scandal of adaptation / Thomas Leitch, editor.
Leitch, Thomas M., editor.
2023
NX161 .S33 2023
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Title The scandal of adaptation / Thomas Leitch, editor.
ISBN 3031141539 electronic book
9783031141539 (electronic bk.)
3031141520
9783031141522
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14153-9
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white, and color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-14153-9 doi
Call Number NX161 .S33 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 700/.457
Summary The thirteen essays in this volume seek to expose the scandals of adaptation. Some of them focus on specific adaptations that have been considered scandalous because they portray characters acting in ways that give scandal, because they are thought to betray the values enshrined in the texts they adapt, because their composition or reception raises scandalous possibilities those adapted texts had repressed, or because they challenge their audiences in ways those texts had never thought to do. Others consider more general questions arising from the notion that all adaptation is a scandalous practice that confronts audiences with provocative questions about bowdlerizing, ethics, censorship, contagion, screenwriting, and history. The collection offers a challenge to the continued marginalization of adaptations and adaptation studies and an invitation to change their position by embracing rather than downplaying their ability to scandalize the institutions they affront. Thomas Leitch is Unidel Andrew B. Kirkpatrick, Jr. Chair in Writing at the University of Delaware, USA, where he teaches undergraduate courses on film and graduate courses on literary and cultural theory. His most recent books are The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies (2017) and The History of American Literature on Film (2021).
Note Includes index.
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Series Palgrave studies in adaptation and visual culture.
Available in Other Form SCANDAL OF ADAPTATION.
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1. Introduction
2. Succs de Scandale: From Adultery to Adulteration
3. Fritz Langs Scarlet Street (1945): Designing for Scandal
4. Sweet Smell of Success: Noir adaptation in this crudest of all possible worlds
5. On Incest and Adaptation: The Foundational Scandal of Cecilia Valds
6. We Need More Input!: John Hughess Weird Science (1985) and Scandals from the Red Scare to the Twitter Mob
7. Adaptation and Scandal in The Goldfinch
8. Scandalous Dystopias: Hyping The Last of Us Part II and Cyberpunk 2077 During the Pandemic
9. Bowdlerizing for Dollars, or Adaptation as Political Containment
10. (Re-)Writing the Pain: War, Exploitation, and the Ethics of Adapting Nonfiction
11. Adaptation and Censorship
12. Cinematic Contagion: Bereullin (The Berlin File, 2013)
13. Periphery and Process: Tracing Adaptation Through Screenplays
14. The Narcissistic Scandal of Adapting History.

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