The Politics of Adaptation [electronic resource] : Media Convergence and Ideology /
Hassler-Forest, D.editor.
Nicklas, P.editor.
In the age of globalization, digitization, and media convergence, traditional hierarchies between media are breaking down. This book offers new approaches to understanding the politics and their underlying ideologies that are reshaping our global media landscape, including questions of audience participation and transmedia storytelling.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Adapting the Past: Politics and History; 1 History as Adaptation; 2 Voyeuristic Revisionism? (Re-)Viewing the Politics of Neo-Victorian Adaptations; 3 Cultural Nostalgia, Orientalist Ideology, and Heritage Film; Part II Adapting Authorship: Politics and Convergence; 4 Emerging from Converging Cultures: Circulation, Adaptation, and Value; 5 Transmediality and the Politics of Adaptation: Concepts, Forms, and Strategies
6 Bastards and Pirates, Remixes and Multitudes: The Politics of Mash-Up Transgression and the Polyprocesses of Cultural JazzPart III Adapting Postcolonialism: Politics and Race; 7 'Bergman in Uganda': Ugandan Veejays, Swedish Pirates, and the Political Value of Live Adaptation; 8 Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning and the Politics of Adaptation in African Literature; 8 Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning and the Politics of Adaptation in African Literature; 9 Michael Jackson and Afrofuturism: HIStory 's Adaptation of Past, Present, and Future; Part IV Adapting Nationality: Politics and Globalization
10 The End of the Hollywood 'Rip-Off'? Changes in the Bollywood Politics of Copyright11 Adapting Tasmania: Terrorizing the Past; 12 Laibach's Subversive Adaptations; Part V Adapting Genre: Politics and Popular Culture; 13 Game of Thrones : The Politics of World-Building and the Cultural Logic of Gentrification; 14 You Think You Know the Story: Novelty, Repetition, and Lovecraft in Whedon and Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods; 15 Stop/Watch: Repressing History, Adapting Watchmen; Part VI Adapting the Body: Politics and Gender; 16 Biopolitics of Adaptation
17 'Restrained Glamour': Joe Wright's Anna Karenina , Postfeminism, and Transmedia BiopoliticsIndex
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
In the age of globalization, digitization, and media convergence, traditional hierarchies between media are breaking down. This book offers new approaches to understanding the politics and their underlying ideologies that are reshaping our global media landscape, including questions of audience participation and transmedia storytelling.
Political science.
Motion pictures-History.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Motion pictures and television.
Communication.
Political Science.
Film History.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Screen Studies.
Media Studies.