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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829027203321

Titolo

Books in motion : adaptation, intertextuality, authorship / / edited by Mireia Aragay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2005

ISBN

94-012-0275-3

1-4237-9082-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Collana

Contemporary cinema ; ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

AragayMireia

Disciplina

791.436

Soggetti

Fiction

Film adaptations

Motion pictures and literature

Intertextuality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Paradoxes of Fidelity; Authors, Auteurs, Adaptation; Contexts, Intertexts, Adaptation; Beyond Adaptation; Notes on Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Books in Motion addresses the hybrid, interstitial field of film adaptation. The introductory essay integrates a retrospective survey of the development of adaptation studies with a forceful argument about their centrality to any history of culture-any discussion, that is, of the transformation and transmission of texts and meanings in and across cultures. The thirteen especially composed essays that follow, organised into four sections headed 'Paradoxes of Fidelity', 'Authors, Auteurs, Adaptation', 'Contexts, Intertexts, Adaptation' and 'Beyond Adaptation', variously illustrate that claim by