Overview
- Develops a new methodology for adaptation studies
- Constructs a history of why certain paradigms have dominated adaptation studies at certain times
- Applies psychoanalytic poststructuralism to a field which has not yet considered this approach in detail
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture (PSADVC)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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From Barthesian and Bakhtinian to Benvenistene Adaptation Studies: Theories of Film Adaptation
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The Drama of Authorship: A Taxonomy of Anamorphic Authorship
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About this book
This book develops a new approach for the study of films adapted from canonical ‘originals’ such as Shakespeare’s plays. Departing from the current consensus that adaptation is a heightened example of how all texts inform and are informed by other texts, this book instead argues that film adaptations of canonical works extend cinema’s inherent mystification and concealment of its own artifice. Film adaptation consistently manipulates and obfuscates its traces of ‘original’ authorial enunciation, and oscillates between overtly authored articulation and seemingly un-authored unfolding. To analyse this process, the book moves from a dialogic to a psychoanalytic poststructuralist account of film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays. The differences between these rival approaches to adaptation are explored in depth in the first part of the book, while the second part constructs a taxonomy of the various ways in which authorial signs are simultaneously foregrounded and concealed in adaptation’s anamorphic drama of authorship.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Anamorphic Authorship in Canonical Film Adaptation
Book Subtitle: A Case Study of Shakespearean Films
Authors: Robert Geal
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16496-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16495-9Published: 03 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16498-0Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16496-6Published: 21 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-629X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6303
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 247
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Adaptation Studies, Shakespeare