Overview
- Demonstrates the collaborative nature of any creative work, in fields often imagined as acts of solitary genius as well as those overtly collaborative in nature
- Includes essays from across a range of adaptation fields — drama and theatre, literature and screen, screen and politics, fine art and theory, and television
- Encompasses the work of leading scholars and practitioners in the field of Adaptation Studies, including Thomas Leitch and Judith Buchanan, as well as emerging scholars
Part of the book series: Adaptation in Theatre and Performance (ATP)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conversations with the Dead I
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Adaptation: Literature and Screen
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Adaptation: Screen, Fine Art and Theory
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Adaptation: Television
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About this book
This book examines the processes of adaptation across a number of intriguing case studies and media. Turning its attention from the 'what' to the 'how' of adaptation, it serves to re-situate the discourse of adaptation studies, moving away from the hypotheses that used to haunt it, such as fidelity, to questions of how texts, authors and other creative practitioners (always understood as a plurality) engage in dialogue with one another across cultures, media, languages, genders and time itself. With fifteen chapters across fields including fine art and theory, drama and theatre, and television, this interdisciplinary volume considers adaptation across the creative and performance arts, with a single focus on the collaborative.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bernadette Cronin is an actor and theatre practitioner-researcher who co-founded Gaitkrash Theatre Company in 2007 to make experimental theatre work at the intersection between art forms. She teaches in the Department of Theatre at University College Cork, Ireland and her research focuses mainly on adapting and devising.
Rachel MagShamhráin is Lecturer in German Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. Her research looks at appropriation — adoptions, borrowings, thefts, re-purposing and retellings across media, languages and genders — and concentrates on the German author Heinrich von Kleist.
Nikolai Jan Preuschoff teaches German at NYU Berlin and Literary Studies at the University of Erfurt. Germany. He is the author of Mit Walter Benjamin: Melancholie, Geschichte und Erzählen bei W.G. Sebald (2016) and is currently working on a postdoctoral project on poetics and modesty.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Adaptation Considered as a Collaborative Art
Book Subtitle: Process and Practice
Editors: Bernadette Cronin, Rachel MagShamhráin, Nikolai Preuschoff
Series Title: Adaptation in Theatre and Performance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25161-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25160-4Published: 09 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25163-5Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25161-1Published: 08 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2947-4043
Series E-ISSN: 2947-4051
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 373
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Performing Arts, Screen Performance, Literature and Technology/Media, Translation Studies, Screenwriting, Theatre Direction and Production