Table of Contents
List of Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xi
Foreword: Kamilla Elliott xii
100+ Years of Adaptations, or, Adaptation as the Art Form of Democracy 1 Deborah Cartmell
Part I History and Contexts: From Image to Sound 15
1 Literary Adaptation in the Silent Era 17 Judith Buchanan
2 Writing on the Silent Screen 33 Gregory Robinson
3 Adaptation and Modernism 52 Richard J. Hand
4 Sound Adaptation: Sam Taylor’s The Taming of the Shrew 70 Deborah Cartmell
Part II Approaches 85
5 Adaptation and Intertextuality, or, What isn’t an Adaptation, and What Does it Matter? 87
6 Film Authorship and Adaptation 105 Shelley Cobb
7 The Business of Adaptation: Reading the Market 122 Simone Murray
Part III Genre: Film, Television 141
8 Adapting the X-Men: Comic-Book Narratives in Film Franchises 143 Martin Zeller-Jacques
9 The Classic Novel on British Television 159 Richard Butt
Part IV Authors and Periods 177
10 Screened Writers 179 Kamilla Elliott
11 Murdering Othello 198 Douglas M. Lanier
12 Hamlet’s Hauntographology: Film Philology, Facsimiles, and Textual Faux-ensics 216 Richard Burt
13 Shakespeare to Austen on Screen 241 Lisa Hopkins
14 Austen and Sterne: Beyond Heritage 256 Ariane Hudelet
15 Neo-Victorian Adaptations 272 Imelda Whelehan
Part V Beyond Authors and Canonical Texts 293
16 Costume and Adaptation 295 Pamela Church Gibson and Tamar Jeffers McDonald
17 Music into Movies: The Film of the Song 312 Ian Inglis
18 Rambo on Page and Screen 330 Jeremy Strong
Part VI Case Studies: Adaptable and Unadaptable Texts 343
19 Writing for the Movies: Writing and Screening Atonement (2007) 345 Yvonne Griggs
20 Foregrounding the Media: Atonement (2007) as an Adaptation 359 Christine Geraghty
21 Paratextual Adaptation: Heart of Darkness as Hearts of Darkness via Apocalypse Now 374 Jamie Sherry
22 Authorship, Commerce, and Harry Potter 391 James Russell
23 Adapting the Unadaptable – The Screenwriter’s Perspective 408 Diane Lake
Index 416
