LEADER 04381oam 2200685I 450 001 9910452189203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-136-66024-0 010 $a0-203-80712-X 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203807125 035 $a(CKB)2550000000098628 035 $a(EBL)957071 035 $a(OCoLC)798532596 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000676585 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11437236 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000676585 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10678146 035 $a(PQKB)10408366 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC957071 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL957071 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10542400 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL760945 035 $a(OCoLC)787849635 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000098628 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe adaptation industry $ethe cultural economy of contemporary literary adaptation /$fSimone Murray 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge research in cultural and media studies ;$v32 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-71054-5 311 $a0-415-99903-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a5. 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 330 $a"Adaptation constitutes the driving force of contemporary culture, with stories adapted across an array of media formats. However, adaptation studies has been concerned almost exclusively with textual analysis, in particular with compare-and-contrast studies of individual novel and film pairings. This has left almost completely unexamined crucial questions of how adaptations come to be made, what are the industries with the greatest stake in making them, and who the decision-makers are in the adaptation process. The Adaptation Industry re-imagines adaptation not as an abstract process, but as a material industry. It presents the adaptation industry as a cultural economy of six interlocking institutions, stakeholders and decision-makers all engaged in the actual business of adapting texts: authors; agents; publishers; book prize committees; scriptwriters; and screen producers and distributors. Through trading in intellectual property rights to cultural works, these six nodal points in the adaptation network are tightly interlinked, with success for one party potentially auguring for success in other spheres. But marked rivalries between these institutional forces also exist, with competition characterizing every aspect of the adaptation process. This book constructs an overdue sociology of contemporary literary adaptation, never losing sight of the material and institutional dimensions of this powerful process"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aRoutledge research in cultural and media studies ;$v32. 606 $aLiterature$xAdaptations$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFilm adaptations$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMass media and literature 606 $aCultural fusion 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiterature$xAdaptations$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFilm adaptations$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMass media and literature. 615 0$aCultural fusion. 676 $a306.4 700 $aMurray$b Simone.$0880892 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452189203321 996 $aThe adaptation industry$92205323 997 $aUNINA