Screen Adaptation: Impure Cinema

by Imelda Whelehan and Hester Bradley

Book Overview

Adaptation studies has historically been neglected in both the English and Film Studies curricula. Reflecting on this, Screen Adaptation celebrates its emergence in the late 20th and 21st centuries and explores the varieties of methodologies and debates within the field. Drawing on approaches from genre studies to transtexuality to cultural materialism, the book examines adaptations of both popular and canonical writers, including William Shakespeare,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403985502
• ISBN13: 9781403985507
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"