Beyond adaptation
Subtitle: essays on radical transformations of original works
By: edited by Phyllis Frus and Christy Williams
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780786442232
Description: "Fifteen essays investigate a variety of texts that rework everything from literary classics to popular children's books, demonstrating how these new, stand-alone creations critically engage their sources and contexts. Particular attention is paid to parody, intertextuality, and fairy-tale transformations in the examination of these works, all of which occupy a unique narrative and creative space"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Borrowing a melody: Jane Campion's The piano and intertextuality / Phyllis Frus; title: Adaptation, The orchid thief, and the subversion of Hollywood conventions / Devin Harner; title: Historical figures transformed: free enterprise and I, Tituba, black witch of Salem / Marni Gauthier; title: Post-colonial transformation: the rejection of English in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi / Anne M. Reef; title: Transforming Great expectations: Dickens, Cuarón, and the bildungsroman / Antje S. Anderson; title: A fuller statement of the case: Mary Reilly and The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Laurie F. Leach; title: Transforming Shakespeare: Neil Gaiman and The sandman / Julia Round; title: On the trail of the butterfly: D. H. Hwang and transformation / Deborah L. Ross; title: Wicked and wonderful witches: narrative and gender negotiations from The wizard of Oz to Wicked / Alissa Burger; title: "Wonderland's become quite strange": from Lewis Carroll's Alice to American McGee's Alice / Cathlena Martin; title: Stories to live by: re-framing storytelling in the Arabian nights miniseries / Jennifer Orme; title: Mulan: Disney's hybrid heroine / Lan Dong; title: Mass-marketing "beauty": how a feminist heroine became an insipid Disney princess / Marc Dipaolo; title: Four times upon a time: "Snow White" retold / Stella Bolaki; title: Mermaid tales on screen: Splash, The little mermaid and Aquamarine / Christy Williams.