Overview

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.

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Author:   Phyllis Frus ,  Christy Williams
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.263kg
ISBN:  

9780786442232

ISBN 10:   0786442239
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   15 March 2010
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Introduction: Making the Case for Transformation      1. Borrowing a Melody: Jane Campion’s The Piano and Intertextuality PHYLLIS FRUS      2. Adaptation, The Orchid Thief, and the Subversion of Hollywood Conventions DEVIN HARNER      3. Historical Figures Transformed: Free Enterprise and I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem MARNI GAUTHIER      4. Post-Colonial Transformation: The Rejection of English in Gavin Hood’s Tsotsi ANNE M. REEF      5. Transforming Great Expectations: Dickens, Cuarón, and the Bildungsroman ANTJE S. ANDERSON      6. A Fuller Statement of the Case: Mary Reilly and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde LAURIE F. LEACH      7. Transforming Shakespeare: Neil Gaiman and The Sandman JULIA ROUND      8. On the Trail of the Butterfly: D. H. Hwang and Transformation DEBORAH L. ROSS      9. Wicked and Wonderful Witches: Narrative and Gender Negotiations from The Wizard of Oz to Wicked ALISSA BURGER      10. “Wonderland’s become quite strange”: From Lewis Carroll’s Alice to American McGee’s Alice CATHLENA MARTIN      11. Stories to Live By: Re-Framing Storytelling in the Arabian Nights Miniseries JENNIFER ORME      12. Mulan: Disney’s Hybrid Heroine LAN DONG      13. Mass-Marketing “Beauty”: How a Feminist Heroine Became an Insipid Disney Princess MARC DIPAOLO      14. Four Times Upon a Time: “Snow White” Retold STELLA BOLAKI      15. Mermaid Tales on Screen: Splash, The Little Mermaid, and Aquamarine CHRISTY WILLIAMS      About the Contributors      Index     

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intriguing...an energetic, bold, well-documented survey...recommended --Choice

intriguing...an energetic, bold, well-documented survey...recommended --<i>Choice</i>.

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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. She lives in Honolulu.

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