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Queer/Adaptation

A Collection of Critical Essays

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  • © 2019

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Editors:
  1. Pamela Demory

    1. University of California, Davis, Davis, USA

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  • Marks the first scholarly text to focus on the intersection of Queer theory and Adaptation theory
  • Theorises about the queerness of adaptation itself
  • Includes a variety of approaches such as textual analysis, authorship, reception, genre analysis, performance, history, nationality, and production

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture (PSADVC)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Queer/Adaptation: An Introduction

    • Pamela Demory
    Pages 1-13

  5. Queerer and Queerer: Promiscuity and Multiplicity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. Queer Many Ways: Ulrike Ottinger’s Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse (1984)

      • Shannon Brownlee
      Pages 177-191

    3. Blood Doubles: A Renegotiation of Sheridan le Fanu’s Carmilla on Film

      • Shelby Wilson
      Pages 193-208

    4. Hitchcock Goes to Italy and Spain: Euro Horror and Queer Adaptation

      • Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
      Pages 209-223

    5. Dazzle, Gradually: A “Tru” Account of Adapting Capote’s In Cold Blood

      • Michael V. Perez
      Pages 225-239

    6. Willful Infidelities: Camping Camille

      • Jamie Hook
      Pages 241-260

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 261-268
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About this book

This collection of essays illuminates the intersection of queer and adaptation. Both adaptation and queerness suffer from the stereotype of being secondary: to identify something as an adaptation is to recognize it in relation to something else that seems more original, more authentic. Similarly, to identify something as queer is to place it in relation to what is assumed to be “normal” or “straight.” This ground-breaking volume brings together fifteen original essays that critically challenge these assumptions about originality, authenticity, and value. The volume is organized in three parts: The essays in Part I examine what happens when an adaptation queers its source text and explore the role of the author/screenwriter/director in making those choices. The essays in Part II look at what happens when filmmakers push against boundaries of various kinds: time and space, texts and bodies, genres and formats. And the essays in Part III explore adaptations whose source texts cannot be easily pinned down, where there are multiple adaptations, and where the adaptation process itself is queer. The book includes discussion of a wide variety of texts, including opera, classic film, genre fiction, documentary, musicals, literary fiction, low-budget horror, camp classics, and experimental texts, providing a comprehensive and interdisciplinary introduction to the myriad ways in which queer and adaptation overlap. 

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“Eschewing moralistic connotations associated with LGBTQ lives, here, promiscuity unyokes binaries of sexuality and gender, while alluding to the intellectual pleasure and possible ‘erotic charge’ of intertextual engagement. By extension, queer/adaptation scholarship should stimulate similar responses; so, in an act of critical promiscuity I read, viewed, or re-experienced all of the material I could locate, seeking pleasure by matching my observations with those of the essayists.” (David Pellegrini, Adaptation, August 14, 2020)

“Whether or not a given adaptation’s cast includes characters who happen to be gay or lesbian or transgender, isn’t there a sense in which the very process of adaptation itself, which calls into question the boundaries and identities of all the texts it treats, is queer? And if it is, don’t adaptation studies and queer studies have a great deal to learn from each other? Using a remarkable variety of case studies and approaches, Pamela Demory and her fourteen contributors explore these questions with wit and brio. Readers are bound to come away enlightened, provoked, and maybe even queered.” (Thomas Leitch, University of Delaware, USA)

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Davis, Davis, USA

    Pamela Demory

About the editor

Pamela Demory is on the faculty of the University of California at Davis, USA. She has published numerous articles on both film adaptation and queer film and television, including “Queer Adaptation,” in The Routledge Companion to Adaptation Studies (2018).  She is the co-editor of Queer Love in Film and Television (Palgrave 2013) and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Popular Culture.

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