ADAPTATION STUDIES

Jorgen Bruhn is Associate Professor in the School of Language and Literature at Linneaus University, Sweden. Anne Gjelsvik is Professor of Media Studies at the Norwegian Univeristy of Science and Technology. Eirik Frisvold Hanssen is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

With case study examples across a range of media, this book brings together leading international scholars to explore new directions in adaptation studies.

Introduction, J rgen Bruhn, Anne Gjelsvik, and Eirik Frisvold Hanssen Part I: Rethinking the Core Questions 1. Theorizing Adaptations/Adapting Theories, Kamilla Elliott 2. Adaptation and Adaptive Revision: The Problem of Textual Identity, John Bryant 3. Dialogizing Adaptation Studies: From One Way Transport to a Dialogic Process, J rgen Bruhn 4. Adaptation as Connection: Transmediality Reconsidered, Regina Schober 5. Adaptations within the Field of Media Transformations, Lars Ellestr m 6. Imaginary Museums: Andr Bazin, Film Theory and Adaptation, Eirik Frisvold Hanssen 7. What Movies Want, Tom Leitch Part II: Theorizing the Case-Study 8. The Medium Strikes Back: 'Impossible Adaptation' Revisited, Hajnal Kiraly 9. 'Pre-Texts': The Notebook Case (Bergman), Anna Sofia Rossholm 10. Tracing the Original: The Film Invictus and "Based on a True Story" Adaptation, Sara Brinch 11. What Novels Can Tell That Movies Can't Show, Anne Gjelsvik 12. Literature Through Radio: Distance, Silence and Media Archaeology: The War of the Worlds 1938/1898, Jonas Ingvarsson Bibliography Index.