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Books in the Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture series

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  • - Transforming Children's Literature into Film
    by R. McCallum
    £93.99

    This book features a cutting edge approach to the study of film adaptations of literature for children and young people, and the narratives about childhood those adaptations enact.

  • - Adapting the Bard in the Age of Media Fandom
    by Johnathan H. Pope
    £66.49 - 78.99

    This book examines Shakespearean adaptations through the critical lens of fan studies and asks what it means to be a fan of Shakespeare in the context of contemporary media fandom.

  • - The Handmaid's Tale and Beyond
     
    £20.49

  • - The Literary Biopic
    by Hila Shachar
    £62.49

    With case studies including adaptations of the biographies and cultural personas of William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, and Allen Ginsberg-to name a few-this book examines how and why the author continues to be a prominent screen and cultural preoccupation.

  • - A Case Study of Shakespearean Films
    by Robert Geal
    £54.49

    This book develops a new approach for the study of films adapted from canonical 'originals' such as Shakespeare's plays.

  • - Fan Cultures and Remediation
    by Anna Blackwell
    £53.49

    By focusing upon a variety of 'Shakespearean' individuals, groups and communities and their 'online' presence, the book explores the role of popular internet culture in the ongoing adaptation of Shakespeare's plays and his general cultural standing.

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    £73.49

    This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of the relationship between Modern Irish Literature and the Irish cinema, with twelve chapters written by experts in the field that deal with principal films, authors, and directors.

  • - Rewiring the Text
    by Yvonne Griggs
    £68.49

    With a particular focus on the serial narrative form, and with case studies that include Penny Dreadful, Fargo, The Night Of and Orange is the New Black, this study is essential reading for anyone who is interested in the complex interplay between television studies and adaptation studies.

  • - Postfeminism and Contemporary Adaptations of Victorian Women
    by Antonija Primorac
    £114.49

    Furthermore, this book examines neo-Victorianism's relationship with postfeminist media culture and offers an analysis of the politics behind onscreen treatment of Victorian gender roles, family structures, sexuality, and colonial space.

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    £104.49

    This book explores the intersection between adaptation studies and what James F. The second section focuses on the juncture where adaptation, the canon, and awards culture meet, while the third considers alternative modes of locating and expressing prestige through adapted and adaptive intertexts.

  • - From Illustration to Novelization
    by Kate Newell
    £104.49

    This book addresses print-based modes of adaptation that have not conventionally been theorized as adaptations-such as novelization, illustration, literary maps, pop-up books, and ekphrasis.

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    £104.49

    Film nonetheless provides the central focus, with analysis of both the corpus as a whole-from Dr. No to Spectre-and of particular films, from popular and much-discussed movies such as Goldfinger and Skyfall to comparatively under-examined texts such as the 1967 Casino Royale and A View to a Kill.

  • - Images, Texts, and Their Multiple Worlds
     
    £144.99

    This book gathers together essays written by leading scholars of adaptation studies to explore the full range of practices and issues currently of concern in the field.

  • - Czech Literature on Screen behind the Iron Curtain
    by Petr Bubenicek
    £93.99

    This book deals with film adaptations of literary works created in Communist Czechoslovakia between 1954 and 1969, such as The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (Zeman 1958), Marketa Lazarova (Vlacil 1967), and The Joke (Jires 1969).

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    £104.49

    This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of the relationship between Modern Irish Literature and the Irish cinema, with twelve chapters written by experts in the field that deal with principal films, authors, and directors.

  • - Adaptation and ElasTEXTity
    by Julie Grossman
    £47.99

    This book posits adaptations as 'hideous progeny,' Mary Shelley's term for her novel, Frankenstein . Like Shelley's novel and her fictional Creature, adaptations that may first be seen as monstrous in fact compel us to shift our perspective on known literary or film works and the cultures that gave rise to them.

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    £104.49

    Nordic Noir, Adaptation, Appropriation deploys the tools of current adaptation studies to undertake a wide-ranging transcultural, intermedial exploration, adding an important new layer to the rich scholarship that has arisen around Nordic noir in recent years.

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    £73.49

    Film nonetheless provides the central focus, with analysis of both the corpus as a whole-from Dr. No to Spectre-and of particular films, from popular and much-discussed movies such as Goldfinger and Skyfall to comparatively under-examined texts such as the 1967 Casino Royale and A View to a Kill.

  • - Scripting Real Lives
     
    £73.49

    Written for readers interested in how memory works on culture as well as screenwriting choices, the collection offers new perspectives on historical media and commercial media that is currently being produced, as well as on media created by the book's contributors themselves.

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    £124.49

    This book is the first full-length study to focus on the various film adaptations of Patricia Highsmith's novels, which have been a popular source for adaptation since Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1952).

  • - Scripting Real Lives
     
    £104.49

    Written for readers interested in how memory works on culture as well as screenwriting choices, the collection offers new perspectives on historical media and commercial media that is currently being produced, as well as on media created by the book's contributors themselves.

  • - Fan Cultures and Remediation
    by Anna Blackwell
    £73.49

    By focusing upon a variety of 'Shakespearean' individuals, groups and communities and their 'online' presence, the book explores the role of popular internet culture in the ongoing adaptation of Shakespeare's plays and his general cultural standing.

  •  
    £124.49

    This book is the first full-length study to focus on the various film adaptations of Patricia Highsmith's novels, which have been a popular source for adaptation since Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1952).

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