The Drift: Affect, Adaptation, and New Perspectives on Fidelity

by John Hodgkins

Book Overview

The Drift: Affect, Adaptation, and New Perspectives on Fidelity offers a new perspective on the complex interrelations between literature and cinema. It does so by articulating an 'affective turn' for adaptation studies, a field whose traditional focus has been the critical castigation of film adaptations of canonical plays or novels. Drawing on theorists such as Gilles Deleuze, Brian Massumi, and Marco Abel, the author is able to re-conceive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628928042
• ISBN13: 9781628928044
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"