The Bloomsbury Introduction to Adaptation Studies: Adapting the Canon in Film, Tv, Novels and Popular Culture

by Yvonne Griggs

From David Lean's big screen Great Expectations to Alejandro Amen bar's reinvention of The Turn of the Screw as The Others, adaptations of literary classics are a constant feature of popular culture today. The Bloomsbury Introduction to Adaptation Studies helps students master the history, theory and practice of analysing literary adaptations. Following an introductory overview of major debates and concepts, each chapter focuses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144113848X
• ISBN13: 9781441138484
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"