Adapting Margaret Atwood : The Handmaid's Tale and Beyond / / edited by Shannon Wells-Lassagne, Fiona McMahon

• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2021.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 808.3; 813.54
• Soggetto topico: Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Television broadcasting; Literature, Modern - 20th century; Literature, Modern - 21st century; Popular culture; Adaptation Studies; Television Studies; Contemporary Literature; Popular Culture
• Persona (resp. second.): Wells-LassagneShannon <1972->; McMahonFiona
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I Atwood Adapts -- "Atwood's Hag-Seed and The Heart Goes Last, a Generic Romp" -- "Negotiating with the Dead": Authorial Ghosts and Other Spectralities in Atwood's Adaptations -- Transforming the Human and the Novel: The Utopian Potential of Resilience in Margaret Atwood'sM addAddam Trilogy -- Atwood's Protean Poetics: Adaptation in the Service of Survival -- Feminist Adaptations/Adaptations of Feminism: Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad -- Part II Atwood Adapted -- The Unreliable Female (Narrator) in Mary Harron's Miniseries Alias Grace -- The Figure of the Objectified Servant, from the Silent Biblical Maid to the Twenty-First-Century Web TV Rebel -- Shallow Focus Composition and the Poetics of Blur in The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu, 2017-) -- Feminism, Facts, and Fear: The Protean Reception of The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood 1985, Miller 2017-) -- You Are Here: The Handmaid's Tale as Graphic Novel -- Offred at the Opera: Dimensions of Adaptation in Poul Ruders and Paul Bentley'sT he Handmaid's Tale -- Part III Atwood in the World: Atwood Adaptation Practitioners -- Staging The Penelopiad -- Filming Alias Grace -- Filming The Handmaid's Tale -- "Adapting (to) Atwood".
• Sommario/riassunto: This book engages with Margaret Atwood's work and its adaptations. Atwood has long been appreciated for her ardent defence of Canadian authors and her genre-bending fiction, essays, and poetry. However, a lesser-studied aspect of her work is Atwood's role both as adaptor and as source for adaptation in media as varied as opera, television, film, or comic books. Recent critically acclaimed television adaptations of the novels The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu) and Alias Grace (Amazon) have rightfully focused attention on these works, but Atwood's fiction has long been a source of inspiration for artists of various media, a seeming corollary to Atwood's own tendency to explore the possibilities of previously undervalued media (graphic novels), genres (science-fiction), and narratives (testimonial and historical modes). This collection hopes to expand on other studies of Atwood's work or on their adaptations to focus on the interplay between the two, providing an interdisciplinary approach that highlights the protean nature of the author and of adaptation.
• Titolo autorizzato: Adapting Margaret Atwood
• ISBN: 9783030736866; 3030736865
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910520065103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture, . 2634-6303