Teaching Adaptations

by Cartmell, Deborah; Whelehan, Imelda

• ISBN13: 9781137311153
• ISBN10: 1137311150
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-11-21
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This volume looks at the ways in which adaptations can and have been taught by leading academics in the field of Adaptation Studies from all over the world. While aware that Shakespeare and canonical literature remain the mainstay of adaptation study in English, Teaching Adaptations addresses the challenges and appeal of teaching popular fiction and culture, video games and new media content, which serve to enrich the curriculum, as well as exploit the changing methods by which English students read and consume literary and screen texts. The volume is structured to appeal to both those who are considering teaching adaptations for the first time as well as those who are familiar with key perspectives in adaptation criticism.

Author Biography

Deborah Cartmell is Professor of English at De Montfort University, UK. She is co-editor of Adaptation and Shakespeare, founder and former Chair of the Association of Adaptation Studies and is currently editing the Bloomsbury History of Adaptation series.

Imelda Whelehan is Research Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia and Visiting Professor at De Montfort University. She is co-Chair of the Association of Adaptation Studies and co-editor of Adaptation. Her long collaboration with Deborah Cartmell has resulted in a number of collections, including Adaptation: From Text to Screen, Screen to Text (1999), The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen (2007) and the co-authored Screen Adaptation: Impure Cinema (2010).

Table of Contents

Notes on the contributors
1. A Short History Of Adaptation Studies in The Classroom; Deborah Cartmell and Imelda Whelehan
2. Canons, Critical Approaches, and Contexts; Shelley Cobb
3. The Paragogy of Adaptation in an EFL Context; Laurence Raw
4. Avoiding 'Compare and Contrast': Applied Theory as a Way to Circumvent the 'Fidelity Issue'; Ariane Hudelet
5. Learning to Share: Adaptation Studies and Open Education Resources; Imelda Whelehan and David Sadler
6. Doing Adaptation: The Adaptation as Critic; Kamilla Elliott
7. Teaching Adapting Screenwriters: Adaptation Theory through Creative Practice; Jamie Sherry
8. Out of the Literary Comfort Zone: Adaptation, Embodiment, and Assimilation; Alessandra Raengo
9. 'Adapting' from School to University: Adaptations in the Transition'; Natalie Hayton
10. Coming soon . . . Teaching the Contemporaneous Adaptation; Rachel Carroll
11. Teaching Adaptations Through Marketing: Adaptations And The Language Of Advertising in the1930s; Deborah Cartmell
Chronology of Key Publications and Events
Select Bibliography
Index