Beyond Adaptation

by Frus, Phyllis

• ISBN13: 9780786442232
• ISBN10: 0786442239
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-15
• Publisher: McFarland Publishing

Summary

Some film and novel revisions go so far beyond adaptation that they demand a new designation. This critical collection explores movies, plays, essays, comics and video games that supersede adaptation to radically transform their original sources. Fifteen essays investigate a variety of texts that rework everything from literary classics to popular children's books, demonstrating how these new, stand-alone creations critically engage their sources and contexts. Particular attention is paid to parody, intertextuality, and fairy-tale transformations in the examination of these works, which occupy a unique narrative and creative space.

Author Biography

Phyllis Frus is an associate professor of English and chair of the English department at Hawai'i Pacific University. Christy Williams is an instructor of English at Hawai'i Pacific University and a doctoral candidate at the University of Hawai'i.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Making the Case for Transformation	p. 1
Borrowing a Melody: Jane Campion's The Piano and Intertextuality	p. 19
Adaptation, The Orchid Thief, and the Subversion of Hollywood Conventions	p. 31
Historical Figures Transformed: Free Enterprise and I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem	p. 42
Post-Colonial Transformation: The Rejection of English in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi	p. 56
Transforming Great Expectations: Dickens, Cuarón, and the Bildungsroman	p. 69
A Fuller Statement of the case: Mary Reilly and The Strange Case of	p. 83
Transforming Shakespeare: Neil Gaiman and The Sandman	p. 95
On the Trail of the Butterfly: D. H. Hwang and Transformation	p. 111
Wicked and Wonderful Witches: Narrative and Gender Negotiations from The Wizard of Oz to Wicked	p. 123
"Wonderland's become quite strange": From Lewis Carroll's Alice to American McGee's Alice	p. 133
Stories to Live By: Re-Framing Storytelling in the Arabian Nights Miniseries	p. 144
Mulan: Disney's Hybrid Heroine	p. 156
Mass-Marketing "Beauty": How a Feminist Heroine Became an Insipid Disney Princess	p. 168
Four Times Upon a Time: "Snow White" Retold	p. 181
Mermaid Tales on Screen: Splash, The Little Mermaid, and Aquamarine	p. 194
About the Contributors	p. 207
Index	p. 211
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