Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies

<p>This collection of forty new essays written by the leading scholars in adaptation studies and distinguished contributors from outside the field is the most comprehensive volume on adaptation ever published. Written to appeal alike to specialists in adaptation scholars in allied fields and general readers it hearkens back to the foundations of adaptation studies a century and more ago surveys its ferment of activity over the past twenty years and looks forward to the future. It considers the very different problems in adapting the classics from the Bible to <em>Frankenstein</em> to Philip Roth and the commons from online mashups and remixes to adult movies. It surveys a dizzying range of adaptations around the world from Latin American telenovelas to Czech cinema from Hong Kong comics to <em>Classics Illustrated</em> from Bollywood to zombies and explores the ways media as different as radio opera popular song and videogames have handled adaptation. Going still further it examines the relations between adaptation and such intertextual practices as translation illustration prequels sequels remakes intermediality and transmediality. The volume's contributors consider the similarities and differences between adaptation and history adaptation and performance adaptation and revision and textual and biological adaptation casting an appreciative but critical eye on the theory and practice of adaptation scholars--and occasionally each other. <em>The Oxford Handbook of</em> <em>Adaptation Studies </em>offers specific suggestions for how to read teach create and write about adaptations in order to prepare for a world in which adaptation already ubiquitous is likely to become ever more important.</p>