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Authors and Adaptation, 1st ed. 2024
Writing Across Media in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture Series
Author: Nissen Annie
Language: EnglishSubject for Authors and Adaptation:
Keywords
adaptation; authorship; intertextuality; literature; theatre; film
Publication date: 05-2024
275 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Relié
275 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Relié
Résumé
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This book studies British literary writers? engagement with adaptations of their work across literary, theatrical, and film media in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It considers their critical, reflective, and autobiographical writings about the process of adaptation, and traces how their work was shaped, as well as delimited, by their involvement with adaptations to different media and intermedial writing. Linking canonical and non-canonical writers both chronologically and contemporaneously, and bridging studies of prose fiction adaptation from nineteenth-century theatre to early twentieth-century film, this book offers an interdisciplinary, transhistorical, cultural, and analytical study of adaptation and the variable positions of writers within and across media.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Copyright Law, Authorial Ownership, and Adaptation Between Novels and Plays in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Chapter 3: Changes in Writer Stratifications across Media in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Chapter 4: Adaptation, Ownership, and the Emergence of Narrative Film
Chapter 5: Literary Writers and Filmmaking Practices in Silent Cinema
Chapter 6: Literary Writers and Early Sound Film: Experimental Writing
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Annie Nissen currently works at Lancaster University, UK, where she has been an Associate Lecturer for both Film Studies and English Literature and a Research Associate for the ‘Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive’ project.
Spans a long historical period to illuminate processes of adaptation across prose fiction, theatre, and film
Offers new insights on adaptation across media through examining author involvement in adaptations of their work
Restores the living author and writing as process rather than product to adaptation studies
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