Beyond Adaptation

<p> Some film and novel revisions go so far beyond adaptation that they demand a new designation. This critical collection explores movies plays essays comics and video games that supersede adaptation to radically transform their original sources. 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 which occupy a unique narrative and creative space.</p>