num_pages: 280
description: Renowned literary scholar Linda Hutcheon explores the ubiquity of adaptations in all their various media incarnations and challenges their constant critical denigration. Adaptation, Hutcheon argues, has always been a central mode of the story-telling imagination and deserves to be studied in all its breadth and range as both a process (of creation and reception) and a product unto its own.Persuasive and illuminating, A Theory of Adaptation is a bold rethinking of how adaptation works across all media and genres that may put an end to the age-old question of whether the book was better than the movie, or the opera, or the theme park.
language: English
title: A Theory of Adaptation
titlecomplete: A Theory of Adaptation
genres: Literary Criticism, Criticism, Film, Reference, Research, Academia, School, Nonfiction, Theory, Academic
ratings_count: 589
publisher: Routledge