Teaching Adaptations [electronic resource] /
Cartmell, D.editor.
Whelehan, I.editor.
Teaching Adaptations addresses the challenges and appeal of teaching popular fiction and culture, video games and new media content, which serve to enrich the curriculum, as well as exploit the changing methods by which English students read and consume literary and screen texts.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Notes on Contributors; 1 A Short History of Adaptation Studies in the Classroom; 2 Canons, Critical Approaches, and Contexts; 3 The Paragogy of Adaptation in an EFL Context; 4 Avoiding 'Compare and Contrast': Applied Theory as a Way to Circumvent the 'Fidelity Issue'; 5 Learning to Share: Adaptation Studies and Open Education Resources; 6 Doing Adaptation: The Adaptation as Critic; 7 Teaching Adapting Screenwriters: Adaptation Theory through Creative Practice; 8 Out of the Literary Comfort Zone: Adaptation, Embodiment, and Assimilation
9 'Adapting' from School to University: Adaptations in the Transition10 Coming soon ... Teaching the Contemporaneous Adaptation; 11 Teaching Adaptations through Marketing: Adaptations and the Language of Advertising in the 1930s; Appendix A: Instructions for the Creative-Critical Project; Appendix B: Marking Descriptors for the Creative-Critical Project; Chronology of Key Publications and Events; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Teaching Adaptations addresses the challenges and appeal of teaching popular fiction and culture, video games and new media content, which serve to enrich the curriculum, as well as exploit the changing methods by which English students read and consume literary and screen texts.
Communication.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature.
Media Studies.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Literature, general.