Authors and Adaptation: Writing Across Media in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

ISBN-13: 9783031468216 / Angielski

Annie Nissen

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Copyright Law, Authorial Ownership, and Adaptation Between Novels and Plays in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Chapter 3: Changes in Writer Stratifications across Media in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Chapter 4: Adaptation, Ownership, and the Emergence of Narrative Film

Chapter 5: Literary Writers and Filmmaking Practices in Silent Cinema

Chapter 6: Literary Writers and Early Sound Film: Experimental Writing

Chapter 7: Conclusion

O autorze

Annie Nissen currently works at Lancaster University, UK, where she has been an Associate Lecturer for both Film Studies and English Literature and a Research Associate for the ‘Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive’ Project.

Blurb

This book studies British literary writers’ engagement with adaptations of their work across literary, theatrical, and film media in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It considers their critical, reflective, and autobiographical writings about the process of adaptation, their responses to adaptations, and, in some cases, their playwriting and screenwriting of adaptations within wider contexts of media industries, cultures, and conventions. It traces how writers and their writing were shaped by their involvement with adaptations to different media and how they developed their writing by writing across media, whilst also highlighting how media and cultural hierarchies delimited their innovations in adaptation and intermedial writing. Linking canonical and non-canonical writers both chronologically and contemporaneously and bridging studies of prose fiction adaptation from nineteenth-century theatre to early twentieth-century film, this book offers an interdisciplinary, transhistorical, cultural, and analytical study of adaptation and the variable positions of writers within and across media. 

Annie Nissen currently works at Lancaster University, UK, where she has been an Associate Lecturer for both Film Studies and English Literature and a Research Associate for the ‘Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive’ Project.