The Adaptation Industry: The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation

ISBN-13: 9780415999038 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 272 str.

Simone Murray

Opis

Focusing on contemporary adaptations, this text corrects previous adaptation studies' tired over-reliance on textual analysis and reconceptualises adaptation as a complex and fascinating material system which profoundly influences the shape of contemporary culture.

Spis treści

Contents  Acknowledgements  List of Figures  Introduction  1: What Are You Working On?: The Expanding Role of the Author in an Era of Cross-media Adaptation  2: World Rights: Literary Agents as Brokers in the Contemporary Mediasphere  3: Making Words Go Further: Book Fairs, Screen Festivals and Writers’ Weeks as Engine-rooms of Adaptation  4: The Novel Beyond the Book: Literary Prize-winners on Screen  5: Best Adapted Screenwriter?: The Intermedial Figure of the Screenwriter in the Contemporary Adaptation Industry  6: Cultivating the Reader: Producer and Distributor Strategies for Converting Readers into Audiences  Afterword: Restive Audiences and Adaptation Futures  Notes  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Simone Murray is Senior Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University, Melbourne.