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UNINA9910824137403321 |
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Autore |
Murray Simone |
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Titolo |
The adaptation industry : the cultural economy of contemporary literary adaptation / / Simone Murray |
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New York, : Routledge, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-66023-2 |
1-136-66024-0 |
0-203-80712-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; ; 32 |
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SOC052000LIT000000PER004000 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature - Adaptations - History and criticism |
Film adaptations - History and criticism |
Mass media and literature |
Cultural fusion |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; The Adaptation Industry: The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 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 Industry6. Cultivating the Reader: Producer and Distributor Strategies for Converting Readers into Audiences; Afterword: Restive Audiences and Adaptation Futures; Notes; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Adaptation constitutes the driving force of contemporary culture, with stories adapted across an array of media formats. However, adaptation studies has been concerned almost exclusively with textual analysis, in particular with compare-and-contrast studies of individual novel and film pairings. This has left almost completely unexamined crucial |
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