- First study of “Making of” sites, across a range of visual media, as a genre of cultural artefactFirst study of “Making of” sites, across a range of visual media, as adaptationsExamines the cultural stakes attendant on how we think about adaptation
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- About this book
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This book explores “Making of” sites as a genre of cultural artefact. Moving beyond “making-of” documentaries, the book analyses novels, drama, film, museum exhibitions and popular studies that re-present the making of culturally loaded film adaptations. It argues that the “Making of” genre operates on an adaptive spectrum, orienting towards and enacting the adaptation of films and their making. The book examines the behaviours that characterise “Making of” sites across visual media; it explores the cultural work done by these sites, why recognition of “Making of” sites as adaptations matters, and why our conception of adaptation matters. Part one focuses on the adaptive domain presented by the “Making of” John Ford’s The Quiet Man. Part two attends to “Making of” Gone with the Wind sites, and concludes with “Making of” The Lord of the Rings texts as the acme of the cultural risks and investments charted in earlier chapters.
- About the authors
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Jan Cronin is a Senior Lecturer in English in the School of Humanities at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She specializes in Irish Studies, New Zealand literature and Adaptation Studies.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction: “The Making of…,” Adaptation and the (Trans-)Cultural Imaginary
Pages 1-21
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Adapting The Quiet Man
Pages 25-53
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Making and Memorializing The Quiet Man in Ireland
Pages 55-79
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The “Making of” The Quiet Man: Popular Studies and Documentaries
Pages 81-103
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“Taking Liberties with Reality”: “Fiction” and the “Making of” The Quiet Man
Pages 105-116
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Making of… Adaptation and the Cultural Imaginary
- Authors
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- Jan Cronin
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-28349-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-28349-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-28348-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-28351-3
- Series ISSN
- 2634-629X
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 271
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
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