The Pedagogy of Adaptation

by Cutchins, Dennis; Raw, Laurence; Welsh, James M.

• ISBN13: 9780810872967
• ISBN10: 081087296X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-23
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

From All Quiet on the Western Front and Gone with the Wind to No Country for Old Men and Slumdog Millionaire, many of the most memorable films have been adapted from other sources. Although courses on film studies are taught throughout the world, The Pedagogy of Adaptation makes a strong case for treating adaptation studies as a separate discipline. What makes this book unique is its assertion that adaptation is above all a creative process and not simply a slavish imitation or reproduction of an "original."

Author Biography

Dennis Cutchins is associate professor of English at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, where he leaches adaptation studies as well as American and western literature. Laurence Raw teaches at Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey. He is the author of Adapting Henry James to the Screen (2006); Adapting Nathaniel Hawthorne to the Screen (2008), and The Ridley Scott Encyclopedia (2009), all published by Scarecrow Press. James M. Welsh is professor emeritus of English at Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland. He is the coeditor of The Literature/Film Reader (2007) and No Country for Old Men: From Novel to Film (2009), both published by Scarecrow Press.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. xi
How to Teach Film Adaptations, and Why	p. 1
Frankenstein's Monstrous Influences: Investigating Film Adaptations in Secondary Schools	p. 21
Adapting Composition, Arguing Adaptation: Using Adaptation in the Composition Classroom	p. 35
A Monster Course and a Course of Monsters	p. 53
Oh My God, They Killed Socrates! Teaching Aristophanes via South Park	p. 63
Sighting the Whale and "The Rights of Man": Teaching with Film Adaptations of the Novels of Herman Melville	p. 75
Why Adaptations Matter to Your Literature Students	p. 87
Adaptability: Questioning and Teaching Fidelity	p. 97
Teaching Adaptation via Intertextuality: The Stepford Wives, Postfeminism, and Avant-Garde Cinema	p. 109
Life without a Primary Text: The Hydra in Adaptation Studies	p. 123
Teaching Adaptation, Adapting Teaching, and Ghosts of Fidelity	p. 139
Filmography	p. 157
Bibliography	p. 161
Index	p. 173
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 181
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