Overview
- First study of “Making of” sites, across a range of visual media, as a genre of cultural artefact
- First study of “Making of” sites, across a range of visual media, as adaptations
- Examines the cultural stakes attendant on how we think about adaptation
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture (PSADVC)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Making of… Adaptation and the Cultural Imaginary
Authors: Jan Cronin
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28349-0
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), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28348-3Published: 09 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28351-3Published: 31 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28349-0Published: 25 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-629X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6303
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 271
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Adaptation Studies, Documentary