Adaptations: From Text to Screen, Screen to Text

by Whelehan; Imelda

• ISBN13: 9780415167376
• ISBN10: 041516737X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

What happens when Jane Austen'sEmmabecomes the big screen'sClueless? How doesBatmanthe comic book translate into a cartoon, television show, and film? With contributions from some of the finest film scholars in the world,Adaptationslooks at what happens to popular texts when they are transformed into an entirely different medium, including novel and comic book to screen and an innovative look at screen to novel. Wide-ranging and innovative in its approach,Adaptationsis a trenchant look at how a story changes--successfully or not--in all its mediums: novel, film, comic book, cartoon, and television. Contributors: Julian North, Esther Sonnet, Roger Bromley, Pat Kirkham, Sally Warren, Nicholas Zurbrugg, Mark Rawlinson, Derek Paget, Sharon Ouditt, Ken Gelder, Ina Rae Hark, Will Brooker, Paul Wells.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	xi
Notes on contributors	xiii
Acknowledgements	xvii
PART I An overview	1	(20)
Adaptations: The contemporary dilemmas	3	(18)
Imelda Whelehan
PART II From text to screen	21	(120)
Introduction	23	(6)
Deborah Cartmell
The Shakespeare on screen industry	29	(9)
Deborah Cartmell
Conservative Austen, radical Austen: Sense and Sensibility from text to screen	38	(13)
Julian North
From Emma to Clueless. Taste, pleasure and the scene of history	51	(12)
Esther Sonnet
Imagining the Puritan body: The 1995 cinematic version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter	63	(18)
Roger Bromley
Four Little Women: Three films and a novel	81	(17)
Pat Kirkham
Sarah Warren
Will Hollywood never learn? David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch	98	(15)
Nicholas Zurbrugg
Adapting the Holocaust: Schindler's List, intellectuals and public knowledge	113	(15)
Mark Rawlinson
Speaking out: The transformations of Trainspotting	128	(13)
Derek Paget
PART III From screen to text and multiple adaptations	141	(85)
Introduction	143	(3)
Deborah Cartmell
Orlando: Coming across the divide	146	(11)
Sharon Ouditt
Jane Campion and the limits of literary cinema	157	(15)
Ken Gelder
The wrath of the original cast: Translating embodied television characters to other media	172	(13)
Ina Rae Hark
Batman: One life, many faces	185	(14)
Will Brooker
`Thou art translated': Analysing animated adaptation	199	(15)
Paul Wells
`A doggy fairy tale': The film metamorphoses of The Hundred and One Dalmatians	214	(12)
Imelda Whelehan
Bibliography	226	(13)
Index	239