The Routledge companion to global literary adaptation in the twenty-first century

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The Routledge companion to global literary adaptation in the twenty-first century

edited by Brandon Chua and Elizabeth Ho

(Routledge companions)(Routledge companions to literature series)

Routledge, 2023

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The Routledge companion to global literary adaptation in the 21st century

Global literary adaptation in the twenty-first century

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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- The first truly global study of adaptation - a rapidly growing area in courses and research so there is a market waiting for this book - Interdisciplinary focus means the book will appeal to a variety of area - literature, film studies, performance, media studies - Contemporary approach draws on the latest research so will appeal to researchers in the field

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Introduction : Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century Brandon Chua and Elizabeth Ho Part I: Beginnings 1. Transnational Adaptation: 'The Dead,' 'Fools,' The Dead, and Fools Liam Kruger Part II: Globalization and Transmediality 2. Videogame Adaptation of Literary Texts and Global Influences: A Case Study of Dracula and the Castlevania Series Matthew Crofts 3. It's (Still) Alive! Re-imagining Frankenstein on Page and Screen Laura Collier and Marina Gerzic 4. Mashing-up the Bible's Passion Story: Transmedia Adaptation and User Participation in the Post-Celluloid Era Dorothy Wai Sim Lau 5. The Show that Never Closes: International Adaptations of Opening Night David Pellegrini 6. Transmedia Transpositions: Beyonce and Rosalia Eduardo Barros-Grela and Andrea Patino de Artaza 7. Race, Refraction, and Retconning in HBO's Watchmen Christopher Pizzino Part III: Global Shakespeares 8. Playing with Shakespeare in Japan Thomas Dabbs, Kyoko Matsuyama, and Rena Endo 9. Adaptation as Renewal: the Transformative Impact of Hamlet's Travels in the Global South Sandra Young 10. Lines of Control and Global Social Justice: Shakespearean Adaptation, British Colonial and Contemporary India and the Question of Kashmir Julie Sanders Psrt IV: Contesting Gender in Global Hollywood 11. The Rebel Trilogy: Adapted Masculinity in Ang Lee's Ride with the Devil (1999), Hulk (2003), and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016) Jason Coe 12. Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues and Seder-Masochism: Reading Adaptation as Feminist Critique Chinmaya Lal Thakur 13. Borderlands Adaptation: Staging and Omitting the Memories of Anti-Indigenous Violence in Bless Me, Ultima (2013) and Arrival (2016) Marcela Di Blasi 14. From America to Italy and France: Queering the Many Lives of The Screaming Mimi Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns Part V: The Global and the National 15. International Prize Culture and Transnational Adaptation Eric Sandberg 16. Fetishizing Localism and Adapting Yangsze Choo's The Ghost Bride: From Oral Storytelling to Netflix Production Sanghamitra Dalal and David H. J. Neo 17. Colliding Asias: Crazy Rich Asians as Novel, Film, Adaptation, and Singapore Edna Lim 18. Reconfiguring China: Adaptation, Cultural Prestige, and Soft Power Yi Li 19. Adaptation in the New Turkish Cinema M. Mert Orsler and Colleen Kennedy-Karpat Part VI: Recuperating the Past for the Global Present 20. Looking at Adaptation from a Distance: The South Asian Vetala Tales' Journey Across Time and Space Ira Sarma 21. Adaptation at the Time of Climate Crises: Educating the Audience through Mythical Narratives from the Sundarbans A. B. M. Monirul Huq 22. Possessed Ecologies: Cross-Cultural Ghosts and Transnational Environments in Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's Snow in Midsummer Joanna Mansbridge 23. De-Colonizing Cloudcuckooland: Re-righting/Re-writing the Blasted Dreamscape of Manifest Destiny in Yvette Nolan's The Birds Phillip Zapkin Part VII: Spinoffs 24. Cultural Criticism and the Graphic Essay: Innervation, Immersion, and Analysis Julia Alekseyeva

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