Adaptation Studies by Christa Albrecht-Crane

This collection of essays offers a sustained, theoretically rigorous rethinking of various issues at work in film and other media adaptations. The essays in the volume as a whole explore the reciprocal, intertextual quality of adaptations that permeate the contemporary media experience-from books, to films, to music, to graphic novels. The central argument in this book is that texts in various media always borrow, rework, and adapt each other in complex ways; in addition, the authors in this volume explore the specific forces (social, economic, historical, and authorial) that are at work in particular texts and intertexts. Together, the fourteen essays emphasize that adaptations, in the intersections they create across different media, inhabit a sort of cross-fertilization that is both artistically productive and affirmative of difference.

About the Author
Christa Albrecht-Crane is associate professor and assistant chair in the Department of English and Literature at Utah Valley University. Dennis Cutchins is associate professor of English at Brigham Young University.

Reviews
There are a number of interesting essays in the book; some that take novel approaches.... The contributions seem to make real moves toward a more theoretically muscular approach to the field of [adaptation]. * Journal of American Studies of Turkey *



Book Information
ISBN 9780838642627
Author Christa Albrecht-Crane
Format Hardback
Page Count 306
Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.
Publisher Associated University Presses