Adaptation Studies New Challenges, New Directions
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Jorgen Bruhn is Associate Professor in the School of Language and Literature at Linneaus University, Sweden.
Anne Gjelsvik is Professor of Media Studies at the Norwegian Univeristy of Science and Technology.
Eirik Frisvold Hanssen is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
<i>Adaptation Studies: New Challenges, New Directions </i>underlines the importance of sustaining as well as establishing new relationships between different media as well as different academic specialisms. Through such strategies we might learn to question as well as reformulate our understanding of what “adaptation” signifies, and how it can enrich ourselves as well as the research topics we pursue.
Literature/Film Quarterly
Extending the boundaries of contemporary adaptation studies, this book brings together leading international scholars to survey new directions in the field. Re-thinking the key questions at the heart of the discipline, Adaptation Studies: New Directions, New Challenges explores a wide range of perspectives and case studies in cross-media transformation.
Topics covered include:
* The history of adaptation studies
* Theories of adaptation
* Adaptations in film, literature, radio and historical sources
* What is an ‘original' text?
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Jorgen Bruhn is Associate Professor in the School of Language and Literature at Linneaus University, Sweden.
Anne Gjelsvik is Professor of Media Studies at the Norwegian Univeristy of Science and Technology.
Eirik Frisvold Hanssen is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.