Television and Serial Adaptation

ISBN-13: 9780367889999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 220 str.

Shannon Wells-Lassagne

Opis

From remakes and reboots to transmedia storytelling, loose adaptations or adaptations which last but a single episode, the recycling of pre-existing narrative is a practice that is just as common in television as in film, and this text examines series from M*A*S*H to Game of Thrones, Pride and Prejudice to Castle

Spis treści

Part 1: Building Blocks

1. Defining Terms

2. Beginning, Middle and End: Structure and Seriality in Television Adaptation

Part 2: Home Entertainment

3. Familiarity and Novelty: Television Microadaptations

4. Crossing Over: Television Adaptation, Between Universality and Specificity

5. Origin and Intention: Authorship in Television Adaptation

Part 3: Broadcasting…

6. Here and There and Back Again: TV’s Influence on Popular Fiction

Conclusion

O autorze

Shannon Wells-Lassagne is Senior Lecturer at the University of Burgundy-Franche Comté in Dijon, France