Screen LibraryAdapted from the original : essays on the value and values of works remade for a new medium /
"This collection of new essays examines the various criteria by which degrees of greatness (or not-so) are constructed--whether by personal, political or social standards--through topics in cinema, literature and adaptation. The contributors recognize how issues of value vary across different c...
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McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
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| Publisher Address: | Jefferson, North Carolina : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"This collection of new essays examines the various criteria by which degrees of greatness (or not-so) are constructed--whether by personal, political or social standards--through topics in cinema, literature and adaptation. The contributors recognize how issues of value vary across different cultures, and explore what those differences say about cultural attitudes and beliefs"-- |
| Carrier Form: | x, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780786478729 0786478721 |
| Index Number: | PN171 |
| CLC: |
J905 I106 |
| Call Number: | I106/A221 |
| Contents: | Introduction / Laurence Raw -- Part I. Genealogy. The Agency and Value of Remakes : The Television-to-Film Adaptation / Kenneth A. Longden -- "I make all things new" : Describing the Ongoing Adaptation in the Judeo-Christian Bible / Allen H. Redmon -- Origin-Ality : Sources and Adaptations of Francophone Voices / Rebecca M. Pauly -- "No one ever sees the Angel" : Adapting The Phantom of the Opera / Leslie McMurtry -- Fingersmith or Handmaiden : Adaptations from the Neo-Victorian Era to Contemporary Asia / Ela İpek Gündüz -- Reshaping Gloriana : Representations of the British Queens in |